Photo Secession: A Fictional Narrative

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The camera focuses on a mother and her two children. She quickly snapped the picture a bright flash was pierced through their eyes. She gently smiled at the women as she walked away. She took a few more photographers before she drifted away with her memories.
When Dorothea was seven years old she got polio. She was ashamed of herself but she told herself that she had to push harder. She became stronger each day. After she had polio, it made her right leg and foot weaker than the other. So she always walked in a limp. When she turned ten years old her parents split up. She took her mother's last name.
She first studied photography under Clarence White, a member of a well known group of photographers called the Photo Secession. At the age of

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