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Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965

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Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothea Lange has received more than 2,128,535 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Dorothea Lange is the 12th most popular journalist, the 849th most popular biography from United States (down from 818th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Journalist.

Dorothea Lange is most famous for her photographs of the Great Depression.

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  • 51

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  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Dorothea Lange ranks 12 out of 196Before her are Joseph Pulitzer, Sebastião Salgado, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Robert Guérin, and Julian Assange. After her are John Reed, Beate Klarsfeld, Victor Noir, W. Eugene Smith, Alexander Berkman, and Lee Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Dorothea Lange ranks 51Before her are André Frédéric Cournand, Augusto César Sandino, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Stanley Rous, Jürgen Stroop, and Richard Walther Darré. After her are Albert Göring, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Lewis Milestone, Dickinson W. Richards, Pavel Sukhoi, and Hans-Georg von Friedeburg. Among people deceased in 1965, Dorothea Lange ranks 23Before her are W. Somerset Maugham, Paul Hermann Müller, Helena Rubinstein, Nat King Cole, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. After her are La Belle Otero, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Joseph Erlanger, Paul Tillich, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, and Louis Hjelmslev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothea Lange ranks 849 out of 20,380Before her are Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Benny Goodman (1909), Martin Seligman (1942), Robert Venturi (1925), Lex Barker (1919), and John J. Pershing (1860). After her are Leon Cooper (1930), Clifford Shull (1915), Morgan Fairchild (1950), Ronnie Coleman (1964), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), and Bing Crosby (1903).

Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Dorothea Lange ranks 2Before her are Anna Politkovskaya (1958). After her are John Reed (1887), W. Eugene Smith (1918), Lee Miller (1907), Tucker Carlson (1969), Edgar Snow (1905), Charles Dow (1851), Diana Nyad (1949), Steve McCurry (1950), Walker Evans (1903), and Margaret Bourke-White (1904).