Grandfather and Grandson, Manzanar, Owens Valley, California

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Grandfather and Grandson, Manzanar, Owens Valley, 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
1942
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Toddler boy sitting on an old man's shoulders. The man is steadying the boy with both hands.

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