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    30 Jan 2009
    havent-got-a-prayer: ilikeart: The image of a worn, weather-beaten woman, a look of desperation on her face, two children leaning on her shoulders, an infant in her lap; has become a photographic icon of the Great Depression in America.  This image known as “Migrant Mother” is one of a series that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange later spoke about the experience: “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet…   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.” Lange alerted the editor of a San Francisco newspaper, presenting him with two of her photos. The editor informed federal authorities and published Lange’s images. As a result, the government rushed 20,000 lbs. of food to the camp. The photos’ wider impact included influencing John Steinbeck in the writing of his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

    havent-got-a-prayer: ilikeart:

    The image of a worn, weather-beaten woman, a look of desperation on her face, two children leaning on her shoulders, an infant in her lap; has become a photographic icon of the Great Depression in America.  This image known as “Migrant Mother” is one of a series that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in 1936 in Nipomo, California.

    Lange later spoke about the experience: “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet…   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.”

    Lange alerted the editor of a San Francisco newspaper, presenting him with two of her photos. The editor informed federal authorities and published Lange’s images. As a result, the government rushed 20,000 lbs. of food to the camp. The photos’ wider impact included influencing John Steinbeck in the writing of his novel The Grapes of Wrath.



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