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  1. BornDorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn · May 26, 1895 · Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.
    DiedOctober 11, 1965 (aged 70) · San Francisco, California, U.S.
    SpouseMaynard Dixon · (m. 1920; div. 1935) · Paul Schuster Taylor · (m. 1935)
    Children2
    How Dorothea Lange Exposed the Reality of the Great Depression
    How Dorothea Lange Exposed the Reality of the Great Depression
    Dorothea Lange was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Her powerful images captured the harsh realities of the Great Depression and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
    Early life

    Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to second-generation German immigrants Johanna Lange and Heinrich Nutzhorn. She had a younger brother named Martin. Two early events shaped Lange's path as a photograph… See more

    Career

    Lange graduated from the Wadleigh High School for Girls, New York City; by this time, even though she had never owned or operated a camera, she had already decided that she would become a photograph… See more

    Aperture and Life

    In 1952, Lange co-founded the photography magazine Aperture. In the mid-1950s, Life magazine commissioned Lange and Pirkle Jones to shoot a documentary about the death of the town of Monticello, California, and the su… See more

    Death and legacy

    Lange's health declined in the last decade of her life. Among other conditions she suffered from was what later was identified as post-polio syndrome. She died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965, in San Franci… See more

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