she was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known
for her depression era work for the farm security administration she was born May 26 , 1895 from Hoboken , new jersey her mom is joan lange nutzhorn an her dad is henry martin nutzhorn .her quote ‘’life for people begins to crumble on the edeges; they don’t realiz it.’’ Dorothea Lange's images of Depression-era America made her one of the most acclaimed documentary photographers of the 20 century. She is remembered above all for revealing the plight of th
sharecroppers, displaced farmers and migrant workers in the 1930s,
and her portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, Californi a1936, has become an icon of the period. After the Depression she went on to enjoy an illustrious career in photo- journalism during its hey-day, working for leading magazines such as Fortune and Life, and traveling widely throughout Asia, Latin America, and Egypt dorothea grew up in a middle-class family in new jearsy . her father worked as a lawyer, but also held several respected positions in local bussnessis , politic the church, while her mother Johanna the hose hold bothe perants were proponets od education and culture and exposed both dorothea and her brother to literature and the creative arts.