Posted on 11/05/2010 7:20:27 AM PDT by Utah Binger
"I suppose if one of my children were here discussing their relationship to me they would be able to think of things that were quite horrifying, dreadful, that I did, that I was…"
- Dorothea Lange from her oral history
As a child he came to recognize his parents' extraordinary gifts, but his view of them changed dramatically during the Depression. While Lange and Dixon were in the field creating some of the most indelible images of the 20th Century, Daniel and his younger brother John, beginning at the ages of seven and four, were 'farmed out' to a series of foster homes, never knowing when they might see their parents again.
Great men from Fresno Ping!
Sorry, I can’t be impressed with parents who dump their kids for their own ambitions. I don’t care if they designed and built the Taj Mahal.
His parents’ most extraordinary gift was their narcissism.
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