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Mary Ann Savage, Toquerville, Utah
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Dorothea LangeAmerican Photographer · 1895–1965
All works by this person →Born Dorothea Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey, to first-generation German Americans, Dorothea Lange was stricken at age seven with polio, which left her right leg and foot disfigured. Her father abandoned the family when she was twelve. After high school, she apprenticed with portrait photographer Arnold Genthe in Manhattan and studied with Clarence H. White at Columbia University’s Teacher’s Coll
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- about 1933–1934
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- Gelatin silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
> Dorothea Lange was first introduced to the people and landscape of Utah the early 1930s by Maynard Dixon, her first husband. He took her and their two young sons there to visit Zion National Park in the southwestern corner of the state near the Arizona border. During that trip Lange photographed an elderly woman named Mary Ann Savage, one of the original Mormon settlers who arrived in 1856. Savage's story of crossing the country as a six-year old child, of being a plural wife, and of helping to build a nineteenth-century village was no doubt intriguing enough to draw Lange back to the area. She returned in 1953 to do a project for *Life* magazine for which she photographed Savage's 1936 gravestone as well as Savage's son Riley, then eighty-five years old. Adapted from Judith Keller, *Dorothea Lange,* In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002), p. 68. © 2002 J. Paul Getty Trust.
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