Dorothea Lange became famous for her Depression-era photographs of what? A - The Dust Bowl
B - Abandoned buildings
C - Shanty towns
D - Migrant workers
Answer: D - Migrant workers After studying photography at Columbia University, Dorothea Lange gained attention during the Great Depression when she began photographing people affected by the economic downturn. She was eventually commissioned by the federal government to photograph migrant rural workers. Her most famous photograph, “Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California” (1936) now hangs in the Library of Congress.