Wikipedia:POTD column/October 22, 2006

Portrait of American photographer Dorothea Lange atop a Ford Model B car in 1936. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs, such as Migrant Mother, humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.

Photo credit: Paul Schuster Taylor/Moondigger
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