Throughout her long working life, Dorothea Lange
was an exceptional, often brilliant photographer. In
the historic decade of the thirties, she was more—
a
pioneer, a shaper of the medium, and a motivator of
the national conscience. Lange's direct, compelling
studies of people forced from the land are both a
faithful chronicle and a landmark of twentieth-century
photography. In her later years, she brought
this unique vision to rural communities as diverse
as the Mormons of Utah, the countryfolk of Ireland,
the fellaheen of Egypt.