![]() ![]() ![]() Later she dropped her father's family name and took her mother's maiden name. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it." Second, five years later, her father abandoned the family, prompting a move from suburban New Jersey to a poorer neighborhood in New York City. "It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. Two early events shaped Lange’s path as a photographer.įirst, at age seven she contracted polio, which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp. Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to second-generation German immigrants Johanna Lange and Heinrich Nutzhorn. ![]() Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). ![]()
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