Migrant Mother
by Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965)
Photography and Film
This 1936 photo of Florence Owens Thompson and her children was taken in a pea-pickers' camp in California. Lange's iconic photo was one of the first to put a human face on the suffering of The Great Depression.
Lange would later give this account of her experience: "She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it."
(Popular Photography, Feb. 1960)
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