Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1939 (Volume II)

viii, 170 pp. These are the photographs that John Steinbeck studied in preparation for writing The Grapes of Wrath. Writings by Paul S. Taylor. Edited by Howard M. Levin and Katherine Northrup. Introduction by Robert J. Doherty. Lane first documented the condition of migrant workers in California. In additional to Lange, the team of full-time FSA photographers included Arthur Rothstein, Theodor Jung, Paul Carter, Carl Mydans, Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Marion Post, John Vachon, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, and John Collier, Jr. Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) 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 tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.