桃樂絲蘭格七歲大時，罹患了小兒麻痺症，這個疾病造成她永遠跛行。她的父親於桃樂絲12歲時離家出走，因而她的媽媽必須外出工作，剛開始身任圖書館員，後來成為一位社工 。桃樂絲就讀的學校位於紐約市，在她放學回家的路上，她可以看見許多窮人及流浪漢。她的疾病、父親的離家及紐約街頭的人們也許有助於她體會攝影主角所承受的痛苦。


When Dorothea Lange was seven years old, she contracted polio, a disease that caused her to walk with a limp. Her father abandoned the family when Dorothea was 12, and her mother went to work, first as a librarian and then as a social worker. Dorothea attended school in New York City, where, on her way home, she saw many people who were poor and homeless. Her illness, the abandonment by her father, and the people she observed in New York may have helped her understand some of the suffering of the people she would later photograph.

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