The department was set up to combat American rural poverty and Lange’s work humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. She embarked on studies of unemployed and homeless people, and caught the attention of the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), which went on to be known as the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and they employed her as a photographer in 1935. The onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s caused Lange to turn her camera lens from the studio to the street. Here she met an investor who made it possible for Lange to open her own portrait studio in the city, which supported her and her family for the next 15 years. Having studied photography at Columbia University in New York City, the photographer found herself settled in San Francisco and worked as a photo finisher at a photographic supply shop.
Though she had never used or owned a camera, Lange was adamant she would become a photographer when she graduated high school in the early 1900s. Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist.
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