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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) had a hard childhood. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, she fell ill with polio at the age of seven and walked with a limp for the rest of her life. Dorothea took up photography as a teenager and was a natural. A critic recalled, "She could look at something: a line of laundry flapping in the wind, a pair of old, wrinkled, worn-out hands, a breadline, a crowd of people in a bus station, and find it beautiful. Her eye was a camera lens and her camera – as she put it – an 'appendage of the body.'"

—Years of Dust, Albert Marrin

The text explains Dorothea Lange’s role as a photographer during the Great Depression. What information is included in this sidebar that would not be appropriate in the text?

the idea that she mostly photographed people
specific details about when and where she was born and her childhood
details about the kinds of people and places in her photos
the effect her photos had on others