This excerpt serves to foreshadow Read the excerpt from "Dorothea Lange."
As a child on trips into New York City, Lange would say
she had a "cloak of invisibility" that she used to watch all
of the people around her on her long strolls. The
independent young woman loved observing life around
her.
O the success Lange found photographing people in
San Francisco.
O the joy Lange took in photographing people in a studio
in specific poses.
the manner in which Lange attempted to hide from all
of her subjects.
the way in which Lange used her personal tragedy