Dorothea Lange

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she was dismissed for the last time.
In the 1950’s and 60’s Dorotheas’s husband, Paul, spent six months
photographing developing countries and Asia. Dorothea began having
reoccurring ulcers. She was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. When
she was in the Near East she caught malaria.
Ansel Adams described her as a difficult woman who was
opinionated, impatient, and willful. A woman who defied the social gender
expectations. Her last project was entitled, “Dorothea Lange Looks at the
American Country Woman.”
Dorothea can definitely be described as someone who stood up for
women and knew that women could do anything anyone else could do.
Dorothea once said, “We need to be reminded these days about what women
have been and can be, it’s a question of their place in society. The really
deep and fundamental place in society.”
On October 11, 1965, Dorothea Lange died at the age of ...

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