Wikipedia:POTD column/October 22, 2006



Portrait of American photographer Dorothea Lange atop a Ford Model B car in 1936. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs, such as Migrant Mother, humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.

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