Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was educated in photography at Columbia University in NYC, in a class taught by Clarence H. White. With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to the street. From 1935-39, Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten, sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers, to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era. In 1941, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she gave up the prestigious award to record the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans to relocation camps, on assignment for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). Her images were so obviously critical that the Army impounded them. In 1952, Lange co-founded the photographic magazine Aperture. In the last two decades of her life, Lange's health was poor. She died of esophageal cancer in 1965 at the age of 70.