Dorothea Lange was an American photographer born in 1895 in New Jersey. She studied photography at Columbia University and traveled the world in 1918 selling her photographs. Lange is best known for her photos documenting the Great Depression that captured families and individuals suffering during this difficult time. Her most famous photo shows a distressed mother and her two children in 1936 and exemplifies the struggles of the era. Lange dedicated her career to photographing the impacts of economic hardship until her death in 1965.