Dorothea Lange was a photographer working in the 20th century. She was first really recognised for her work in the mid 1930s after she had joined a group of photographers employed to publicize the conditions of the rural poor in America. After she had become part of this group she produced several notable photographs including 'Migrant Mother' (1936). She worked with Sociologist Paul. S. Taylor, helping him to produce a book on the study of migrant workers. Lange also undertook her own photographic tours of Asia, the Middle East and South America. A major retrospective exhibiton of her work was opened in New York shortly before she sadly died of cancer in 1965.
Lange's photography is different to the type of work that I am usually drawn to, aside from that they are black and white which is an asthetic that I do normally like. However I really like her photography and find the way in which she documents the raw emotion of her subjects quite unique. I like that she has captured the lives of real people, in an unglamorous, and moving way. 'Migrant Mother' in particular captures the emotion of the woman depicted, I feel it really evokes the sadness and loneliness of her and her children.
(Lange D, 1936, Migrant Mother, accessed 23 Apri 2012,
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/lange/aa_lange_power_2_e.html)
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