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“Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.” Spoken by the well known Dorothea Lange. This was one of her main principles being a photographer. She showed America the truth about the real Americans of the depression. Her work has provided one of the most committed social documentaries of photography in our century. Dorothea Nutzhorn was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 26th 1895. As a child at the age of seven she contracted polio which left her with a permanent limp which she often said she believed that heightened her sensitivity to the sufferings of others. Her father soon after that abandoned the family, she decided to then take her mother’s maiden name, Lange. In 1914 She visited the Fifth Avenue portrait stupid of Arnold Genthe, he gave