Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.

Lange's 1936, Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson

I have always loved this picture by Lange. I feel it is another one of those iconic images that moved and educated people at a time when it was important to do so. The FSA has tons of images by the photographers they sent out during the Depression that we have never seen. Now that collection of images are documentation of certain period of history that needs to be remember. Like the Holocaust the amount of people who lived during these period of history are becoming less and less. After the live individual accounts, the images are the next best way to remind people of this history to keep us from having to endure such hardships again.