Dorothea Lange was an American documentary-style photographer during the Great Depression.  She is especially known for her iconic portrait of a mother and her children, titled “Migrant Mother.”  She captured raw emotion and pain that acutely represented the overall feeling of life in America at the time.  Her parents were major advocates of exposing her to creativity and art.  Following high school, she studied photography at Columbia University.  By 1918, Lange ran a successful portrait studio with her husband.  She got into documentary photography, photographing people that she came across in the streets.  Often, the captions of her photos were the words of the subjects she captured.  When America entered WWII, she was hired by the Office of War Information to photograph the internment of Japanese Americans.