Migrant Mother, 1936
Dorothea Lange
Photograph taken in Nipomo, California
Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895-October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photo journalist, best known for her Depression era work for the Farm Security Administation. Lange’s photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression.
In 1936 Dorothea Lange took the photograph, Migrant Woman. The woman in the photograph is 32 years old and her name is Florence Owens Thompson. The photo was taken in Nipomo, California. It is a picture of a direct impact of the Great Depression, two years following the Great Depression. Florence was the mother of seven children and had been living on frozen vegetables from surrounding fields and birds that the children killed.
What caught my attention is the fact that we still have many families that are still living in poverty today. This picture was taken almost 80 years ago and the American people are still suffering for influences of the Early Modern Era.
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