Abstract
This quote from Dorothea Lange refers to not only the sharpness of her eyes, but especially the sharpness of her ear. Beaumont Newhall writes in the monograph, Dorothea Lange Looks at The American Country Woman, found herself talking to the people she photographed. At one point she told a colleague . . . in the migrant camps there were always talkers. This was very helpful to me, and I think it was helpful to them. It gave us a chance to meet on common ground?something a photographer like myself must find if he's going to do good work. Dorothea Lange, along with other Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers, such as Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, and Gordon Parks, were pioneers in the social documentary tradition. Each of these photographers were employed by the Resettlement Administration, which was established in 1935, to alleviate rural poverty and assist people dislocated by the industri-
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