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Jul 11, 2016 · Since Dorothea Lange shot that powerful black-and-white portrait in a pea pickers' camp in rural Nipomo in February 1936, “Migrant Mother” has become one of the most recognizable images of the Great Depression, symbolic of the struggles of an entire generation.
- How The Photo Was Taken
- The Real ‘Migrant Mother’
- Life After The Famous Photo
“I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother as if drawn by a magnet,” Lange told Popular Photography magazine in 1960. She had spotted a sign for the migrant workers’ campsite driving north on Highway 101 through San Luis Obispo County, some 175 miles north of Los Angeles. Bad weather had destroyed the local pea crop, and the pickers were...
Then in 1978, a woman named Florence Owens Thompson wrote a letter to the editor of the Modesto Beenewspaper. She was the mother in the famous “Migrant Mother” photo, Thompson said—and she wanted to set the record straight. In an Associated Press article that followed, titled “Woman Fighting Mad Over Famous Depression Photo,” Thompson told a report...
The family kept moving after Nipomo, following farm work from one place to another, and Florence would have three more children. After World War II, she settled in Modesto, California and married George Thompson, a hospital administrator. By 1983, five years after claiming her identity as the “Migrant Mother,” Thompson was living alone in a trailer...
- Sarah Pruitt
Dec 3, 2008 · The picture is best known as "Migrant Mother," a black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson, then 32, and her children. Lange was...
Jul 4, 2017 · Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California), gelatin silver prints of the photograph remain in some of the world's major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate. See the entire Migrant Mother series below.
Migrant Mother. Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, by American photographer Dorothea Lange [1] during her time with the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration ). [2] The 28.3 by 21.8 cm (11 1/8 by 8 9/16 in) gelatin silver print depicts a mother anxiously gazing into the distance ...
Migrant Mother depicts an impoverished farmworker and her children at a pea-pickers’ camp in California. Lange created this iconic photograph by emulating well-known Christian iconography of Mary and the infant Jesus in an attempt to compel 1930s viewers to extend religious compassion to rural families experiencing famine.
Apr 26, 2017 · In ten minutes, Lange snapped six photos of Owens and her children. Together — with the photo above chief among them — these “Migrant Mother” photos became the definitive images of Depression-era poverty and despair.
