






Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) was verified through Britannica, PBS American Masters, and MoMA. Britannica confirms her birth and death dates, her standing as an American documentary photographer, Migrant Mother, Depression-era migrant-worker work, and the late MoMA retrospective context. PBS confirms the childhood polio in 1902 that left a lifelong limp and her death from inoperable esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965 while preparing a major MoMA retrospective. MoMA confirms the enduring legacy of her Resettlement Administration/Farm Security Administration photographs documenting the Great Depression, rural poverty, and social engagement. Her worth is witness: she made public suffering visible as human evidence rather than abstraction.






