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Dorothea Lange – Dorothea Lange is an American photographer born in New Jersey in 1895. He spent a childhood marked by illness and family problems. As a child she was struck by polio, and when she was only 12 years old her father abandoned’ her and her family. She learned the techniques of large format portraiture at the Clarence White School in New York in 1917, the following year she moved’ to San Francisco where she started’ a successful photographic studio and married the painter Maynard Dixon in 1920.In 1929 she separated’ from her husband and, starting from 1932, gradually abandoned’ portraiture to dedicate herself to social photography. In the period between ‘32 and ‘39, Dorothea Lange worked’ with her second husband, Paul S. Taylor, to a project documenting social problems related to depression in rural areas,also working for the US Department of Rural Areas. He won a Guggenheim Prize in 1941 and later work’ on the Japanese prisoners held by the Americans. In 1947 he collaborated in the birth of the Magnum agency and in 1952 he was among the founders of the magazine Aperture. After the war she traveled a lot with her husband and in the two-year period between ’54 and ‘55 I worked‘as a Life photographer. Due to the poor health he found himself in in the last years of his life, his activity suffered a sudden setback. He died at the age of 70 from esophageal cancer.After the war she traveled a lot with her husband and in the two-year period between ’54 and ‘55 I worked‘as a Life photographer. Due to the poor health he found himself in in the last years of his life, his activity suffered a sudden setback. He died at the age of 70 from esophageal cancer.After the war she traveled a lot with her husband and in the two-year period between ’54 and ‘55 I worked‘as a Life photographer. Due to the poor health he found himself in in the last years of his life, his activity suffered a sudden setback. He died at the age of 70 from esophageal cancer. Source: great photographers