Answer:
She contracted polio at the age of seven which made her her right foot and leg to be weakened.
Step-by-step explanation:
Dorothea Lang was an American photographer, she made photographs of unemployed men during the Great Depression, She was a skilled documentary photographer and received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940. She was born on May 26, 1895 in New jersey.
She contracted polio at age seven which left her right leg weakened, she believed the polio had a positive effect on her life, in her words she said "It(the polio) was the most important thing that happened to me, and formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me".
Her parents divorced just before she became a teenager. She blamed the separation on her father and went on to drop his last name to answer her mother's maiden name Lang. Her parents were strong advocates of education and exposed her to creative works, therefore literature was part of her upbringing.
Her first obvious work of documentary photography was when she traveled around the southwest during the Great Depression in the 1930s photographing native Americans.