▲American documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) took some of the most powerful and iconic images of the Great Depression. More than 80 years later, her work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) remains the defining chronicle of one of the most desperate economic periods in the history of the USA.

Browse the following gallery for a pictorial journey through 1930s Depression-era America.

▲An itinerant worker, traveling by foot, looking for work in mines, lumber camps, or farms.

▲Cheap auto camp housing for citrus workers.

▲A former Missouri farmer and his wife, now working as farm laborers, pause on the road in California.

▲A family in Pittsburg County is forced to leave their home due to a serious drought in the region.

▲An unemployed and destitute man leaning against a vacant store in Garfield.

▲A couple of tenant purchase applicants sitting outside the US Department of Agriculture's Farm Security Administration (FSA) office.

▲A migrant, proud of his appearance, shaving by the roadside.

▲Elderly farmers sitting in the shade while their crops burn in nearby fields.

▲A group of farm laborers cutting lettuce in Salinas.

▲A family of migrant workers flee from the drought in Oklahoma before camping by the roadside near the town of Blythe.

▲A young, malnourished girl living in a shack town near Oklahoma City.

▲A line of men inside the state employment service office in San Francisco.

▲The wife of a migratory laborer lost in her thoughts.

▲A family of drought refugees from Abilene, TX, on the road in California, where they are trying to find work.

▲Two men walking towards Los Angeles, and hopefully a better future.

▲A Mennonite farmer in Boundary County rests during logging.

▲A real estate office in Oakland. A new, 2-bedroom home for $3,850 is among the properties listed for sale.

▲Frances Owens Thompson, a migrant mother with three of her seven children at a farm workers' camp in Nipomo. This image, called "Migrant Mother", defined the Great Depression and remains Lange's most celebrated photograph.

▲A barefooted sharecropper rests near the town of Chesnee.

▲Men and mules cultivating cotton at the Lake Dick Cooperative Association farm.

▲Reasonably nourished, a mother manages a smile as she holds her baby.

▲A man, hands clenched with worry, waiting at a breadline in San Francisco during the winter.

▲An elderly man bent over a turpentine still near Valdosta.

▲Dust Bowl migrants motor along the highway between Imperial Valley and the San Joaquin Valley on the Tehachapi Ridge.

▲A sparsely decorated kitchen in the home of a tobacco sharecropper, replete with a cast iron cooking stove, wash basin, and a butter churn.

▲Her face etched with desperation, the daughter of an unemployed Tennessee coal miner sits in a California migrant workers' camp near Sacramento.

▲A 13-year-old African-American sharecropper boy plowing a dry, rain-starved field.

▲A group of men sitting out on the porch of a country store on a dirt road in Gordonton.

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An ex-tenant farmer surviving on a relief grant pictured with colleagues in Imperial Valley.

Humanizing the Great Depression: The influential photography of Dorothea Lange

The legendary photographer passed away on October 11, 1965

20/02/18 por Paul Bernhardt

LIFESTYLE Photojournalism

American documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) took some of the most powerful and iconic images of the Great Depression. More than 80 years later, her work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) remains the defining chronicle of one of the most desperate economic periods in the history of the USA. Browse the following gallery for a pictorial journey through 1930s Depression-era America.