Dorothea Lange's "White Angel Breadline" showed the desperate conditions of jobless men during the Great Depression.
Near Lange’s studio a rich woman who was called the White Angel had set up a breadline for the hungry. A man in worn out clothes and hat was leaning against a wooden barrier and looking down. His hands were folded on top of a fence and there was a tin cup between his arms.
When she took the photograph, she had no idea what to do with it. Then more and more she gave herself to do this documentary. It turned out to be the beginning of a new phase in her career. From a protrait photorapher for rich people to a documantary photographer.
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