Photography and Social Change: Dorothea Lange and the Politics of Seeing

Cat Lachowskji | Lensculture | 25th June 2018

Dorothea Lange was not an obvious candidate to trailblaze documentary photography. She was an upmarket portrait photographer before taking government assignments during the Depression. Her images were sensationally powerful and now form part of America’s visual history. “A camera is a tool,” she once said, “for learning how to see without a camera.”