Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

Lange is most noted for documented the change on the homefront, especially among ethnic groups and workers uprooted by the war. Especially after Pearl Harbor came about and Japanese internment camps began growing Lange was hired to photograph the camps. Lange's earlier work documenting displaced farm families and migrant workers during the Great Depression did not prepare her for the disturbing racial and civil rights issues raised by the Japanese internment. Lange created images that frequently juxtapose signs of human courage and dignity with physical evidence of the indignities of incarceration. Most of these photographs were censored by the federal government