Dorothea Lange

Left a financially secure commercial portrait studio during the Depression to photograph breadlines and unemployment, and later migrant labor conditions for the Farm Security Administration.

Recorded detailed field notes alongside her photographs documenting subjects' specific circumstances and quotes -- the practice behind the 'Migrant Mother' image, among the era's most recognized documentary photographs.

Photographed Japanese American internment camps in a manner documenting harsh conditions rather than the neutral or favorable images the commissioning War Relocation Authority expected -- work considered critical enough that the US Army impounded many of the images for decades.

Self-initiated leaving her established, financially secure portrait studio business to photograph Depression-era breadlines and unemployment before receiving any government commission.

Leaving financial security to pursue uncommissioned documentary work is the basis for the profile's proactive_agency score. Proactive Agency

Continued demanding documentary field work despite a childhood polio-related disability, which she later described in interviews as shaping her empathetic approach to subjects.

Sustaining demanding field work within a real physical constraint is the basis for the profile's resourcefulness score. Resourcefulness