Dorothea Lange was born on May the 26th of 1895 in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. Dorothea got polio at only 7 years old and it weakened her right leg and foot. Dorothea’s parents both wanted her to get a great education. When she was a teenager her mother and father divorced. In 1913, She joined the New York Training School for Teachers. She pursued a profession in photography and studied photography at Columbia University. She later took on a career as a photographer in San Francisco, opening a portrait studio. She married Maynard Dixon and had two children and a middle-class life. In the 1920’s she traveled the southwest with her husband and photographed on the road. She photographed unemployed people in San Francisco and ended up receiving
