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Born May 26, 1895 • Hoboken • New Jersey
Died October 11, 1965 (aged 70) • San Francisco • California
Founder “Aperture”
Notable Works “An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion” • “Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment” • “Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California” • “White Angel Breadline”

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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Dorothea Lange: photograph of workers in a Georgia forest
Dorothea Lange: photograph of a Mexican migrant worker
Dorothea Lange: photograph of an Oklahoma migrant stalled
Dorothea Lange: photograph of a store owner's response to anti-Japanese sentiment
Dorothea Lange: the Mochida family ready for relocation
“Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California” by Dorothea Lange, 1936.
police officer, San Francisco
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Ernst Haas, photograph by Erich Hartmann.
Ernst Haas
Austrian photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White
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W. Eugene Smith
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Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
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Andreas Feininger
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David Seymour.
David Seymour
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Capa, self-portrait photograph
Robert Capa
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David Douglas Duncan
American photojournalist
Bruce Davidson
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans
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Self-portrait by André Kertész, 1927.
André Kertész
Hungarian-born American photographer
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks
American author, photographer, and film director
Textile mill worker
Lewis Hine
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Abbott, Berenice: Broad Street looking toward Wall Street, Manhattan
Berenice Abbott
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Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady
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Weegee
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Aaron Siskind
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Thérèse Bonney
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