Dorothea Lange

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has chosen Dorothea Lange: American Photographs as the last large photography exhibit in the old War Memorial Building. As Dorothea Lange never considered herself an artist to begin with, it is ironic for her to be on exhibit here. Though it is appropriate that her work is displayed at the Civic Center, near the site of labor demonstrations that she often photographed, than at the new Museum site near Yerba Buena Center.

If Dorothea Lange was alive today, she would probably be out in United Nations Plaza, talking with and photographing the homeless. Shy as she was, Dorothea Lange was always interested in people: either her rich clients who sat for their portraits in her early career, or the migrant workers from Oklahoma she spent time with in later years.

http://www.ibiblio.org/channel/Lange.html

(yes I know I am bad I just copied it)