Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California

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Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California

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Dorothea Lange

American Photographer · 1895–1965

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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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Date
1938
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Getty Museum
Object ID
1dfbfe9d-199e-4983-96f9-d6cea2956d8b

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View of a woman sitting in the back seat of a car, through the oval-shaped window. She leans against the inside of the car and holds her hand up to rest on her face as she looks out the window.

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