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What type of social travesty did Dorothea Lange capture?

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During the 1930s, the state of California commissioned a report on the way of life of migrant laborers. Lange made the report in collaboration with her future husband, Paul Taylor, an economics professor. Lange's photographs emphasized the laborer's dignity and pride in an environment of starkest poverty.

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