Advocacy through images: Dorothea Lange

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Pediatric radiologists and photographers are imagers, and both can use the images they create for purposes of advocacy. To understand how effectively images can advance advocacy, radiologists can turn to few better sources of inspiration than Dorothea Lange. She was one of the 20th century’s best-known American photographers and created perhaps its most iconic image: “Migrant Mother.” Her images of impoverished, hungry and even incarcerated children may have done more than the words of any journalist or politician to foster public sympathy for their plight, in large part because she knew first-hand what loss was all about. …