In this collection, students will analyze a transcription of a letter from Dorothea Lange to painter Ben Shahn thanking him for capturing the "Biography of a Painting" in his new book. Students will then analyze several of Lange's works from the Great Depression and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and discuss the "biography of a photograph."  How does the history of these photographs affect the impact they have? What elements of these photographs bring that history to life for the viewer?