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.

This excerpt serves to foreshadow

the success Lange found photographing people in San Francisco.
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 to form her work.