Dorothea Lange
We need to be reminded these days about what women have been and can be, it's a question of their place in society. The really deep and fundamental place in society.
-Dorothea Lange, ca.1964.
As her photography reveals, Dorothea Lange had a tremendous respect for the people she photographed, with special empathy for the women who's "deep and fundamental" place in society she celebrated. She saw the inner strength in people who were pushed to their own personal limits. Even when she photographed men and woman in desparate economic, social, and emotion circumstances, she captured their innate human dignity. She saw in her subjects what she called "courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it."