Dorothea Nutzhorn (Lange) was a
photographer from New Jersey. Dorothea changed her last name for her mother's
maiden name, when her dad abandoned the family.
Dorothea Lange had opened a
successful portrait studio until the Economic Depression in about 1929 and is
when she takes interest to show the consequences of the Great Depression. She
develops a Documentary photography and used it to chronicle this historical
event. Her pictures was focused on humanized the Great Depression and to show
how people were affected by this event, she portrays families and the
unemployed, women and kids, she portrays the real society. 
“… But to imperfect people whose
actuality was most likely to be realized in the physical and social
circumstances in which they were spending their lives.”
She also shows interest to the
evacuation of Japanese Americans to relocation camps after the attack on Pearl
Harbor. With her pictures criticized the government because the detaining of
innocent people without charging them with any crime.
“She was picturing some of the
disgracefully invisible people of our society, making them visible to all with
humane eyes to see.”
Dorothea has a critical eye that
allows her to see beyond the simple things with her camera takes photography of
the real human condition, she portray the essence of the subject and makes
artistic photographs.
Quotations
‘Dorothea Lange with an introductory essay’
George
P. Elliott (1966) by Doubleday & Company, Inc
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