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May 8, 2020 · Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photograph. Then in 1978, a woman named Florence Owens Thompson wrote a letter to the editor of the Modesto Bee newspaper. She was the mother in the famous ...
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Aug 24, 2019 · The picture we’re looking at today is a portrait of Thompson with three kids taken in March of 1936 by Dorothea Lange with her 4×5 Graflex camera. One of the key factors that made the ...
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 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.
Apr 26, 2017 · The "Migrant Mother" photo is iconic — but if the subject had her way, she wouldn't be the face of the Great Depression. In 1936, a very tired 32-year-old mother of seven named Florence Owens sat down with a few of her children in a temporary shelter near the migrants’ camp in Nipomo, California, next to her broken-down car.
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 ...
Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother) (March 1936) by Dorothea Lange The J. Paul Getty Museum. In 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange was on a documentary assignment for the US Resettlement Administration. It was now seven years since the Wall Street Crash and well into the Dust Bowl years. Impoverished farm workers had abandoned their ...
