← Exhibitions

Eugene Richards, Dorothea

Eugene Richards, Dorothea

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS –1979: Thirty-four-year-old Dorothea Lynch awaits her last dosage of chemotherapy at the Boston Hospital for Women in 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts. Dorothea, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in December 1978, had previously undergone a modified radical mastectomy and radiation treatments.