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Dorothea Lange. Changed her last name to Lange after her parents divorced Married twice Had two sons with her first husband Died from esophageal cancer.

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1 Dorothea Lange

2 Changed her last name to Lange after her parents divorced Married twice Had two sons with her first husband Died from esophageal cancer in October 1965 Had polio at age seven, damaged her right leg and foot forever

3 Native Americans Dust Bowl Japanese-American camps Working minorities The Great Depression Bread lines Labor strikes

4 Iconic images, that captured hardships most Americans were facing during the Great Depression.

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8 First woman to win Guggenheim fellowship Dorothea Lange did not receive the outcry she wanted from the public for her pictures when she originally published them, but over time her pictures have received the deeper meaning they deserve.

9 While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. -Dorothea Lange


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