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USA: 'Destitute pea pickers in California, Mother of seven children, Age thirty-two', (Florence Owens Thompson), Nipomo, California, Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965), February 1936

USA:  'Destitute pea pickers in California, Mother of seven children, Age thirty-two', (Florence Owens Thompson), Nipomo, California, Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965), February 1936

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an 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.

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