Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
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2014-05-27
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Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.
Ensler was born in New York and is Jewish. She reports having been physically and sexually abused by her father when she was a child.
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2014-05-25
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Barbra Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter.
She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history.
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2014-04-24
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