a middle class child of a german immigrant parents born in hoboken and 1895. very middle class life until to traumas and when she was sick and she got polio. when she was well, her parents separated. the physical experience of polio was certainly painful and terrifying and she emerged with a permanent and small disability. but she was deeply upset by her father's departure from household. but the biggest blow negative were how they were assimilated and understood by the yondah speed and in this regard her mother's influence was key. her mother was embarrassed by her disfigured foot and lower leg and heard lamp and she urged her always to try to disguise them as much as possible. in this way even her polio experience was gendered because her mother had such anxiety about what her body would look like. when skirts got shorter, she began to wear slacks which was unusual and not at all fashionable at the time. she never again wore a skirt that was less than floor length. as an adult photographer, she made many, many images of feet and legs and with her typical mag