桃乐丝兰格七岁大时，罹患了小儿麻痹症，这个疾病造成她永远跛行。她的父亲于桃乐丝12岁时离家出走，因而她的妈妈必须外出工作，刚开始身任图书馆员，后来成为一位社工 。桃乐丝就读的学校位于纽约市，在她放学回家的路上，她可以看见许多穷人及流浪汉。她的疾病、父亲的离家及纽约街头的人们也许有助于她体会摄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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