Bibliograph

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Sarah Hermanson Meister

Type

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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Sarah Hermanson Meister

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 46)

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dorothea Lange

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1043426954

Responsibility statement

Sarah Hermanson Meister

Series statement

MoMA one on one series

Sub title

Migrant Mother

Summary

The US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) began documenting its impact through depictions of unemployed men on the streets of San Francisco. Her success won the attention of Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration), and in 1935 she started photographing the rural poor under its auspices. One day in Nipomo, California, Lange recalled, she "saw and approached [a] hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet." The woman's name was Florence Owens Thompson, and the result of their encounter was seven exposures, including "Migrant Mother." Curator Sarah Meister's essay provides a fresh context for this iconic work

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