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“The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...
Many years after Dorothea Lange's iconic 1936 photograph, a reporter asked Florence Owens Thompson about the life she eked out for her family. "We just existed," she said, with no sentimentality.
It's commonly known as Migrant Mother, and it was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 during the Great Depression. In the U.S. Library of Congress, the photograph is labeled as "Destitute pea pickers ...
DOrothea LANGE’S photograph “Migrant Mother” (1936), which shows a plaintive, destitute woman surrounded by her children at the height of the Depression, secured her place as one of the most ...
Iconic image: Kids of 'Migrant Mother' were proud of her By Carolyn Jones , Chronicle Staff Writer Aug 23, 2009 Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," (c. 1936) gelatin silver print.
It was 1936, during the throes of the Great Depression, and Lange took out her camera. The image she titled “Migrant Mother” became the late photographer’s most famous work, ...
A reader likens an article and photos on families living on Skid Row to Dorthea Lange's chilling 1936 picture, "Migrant Mother." 88 years later, "Migrant Mother" is still reality on Skid Row - Los ...
The exhibition also includes groundbreaking photographs of the 1930s—including Migrant Mother (1936)—that inspired pivotal public awareness of the lives of sharecroppers, displaced families ...