What was Dorothea Lange’s family like?

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Lange was the elder of two children in a middle-class family. Her parents separated when Lange was 12, and she later assumed her mother’s maiden name. Lange had two children with her first husband, painter Maynard Dixon. After divorcing Dixon in 1935, Lange married economist Paul S. Taylor, becoming a stepmother to his three children.