Dorethea Lange
Dorethea was born 5/26/1895 in New Jersey. When she was young her father abandoned her family. When she was just 7 years old she was contracted polio which left her with a permanent limp. She worked in a Arnold Genthe's studio before she studied photography at Columbia University. In 1918 she set up a photography studio in San Fransico. Later in 1920 she married Maynard Dixon and they had two children. In 1935 she divorved Dixon and married Paul Taylor. In 1942 Lange was hired to document the internment of Japenese-Americans in the second war. The FSA paid for Langes' photos and she recieved the "Guggenheim Fellowship" for her amazing pictures. Lange died on 10/11/1965. Her most famous photo today is the "Migrant Mother".
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPlange.htm
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