The most famous photo from the Great Depression is “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange. Lange was born in 1895. She contracted polio at age 7 and it weakened her right leg and left her with a permanent limp. At age 17, her father abandoned the family. She took her Read more…
So you think you could be a professional photographer. After all, you take great selfies. Well, look at this picture by Dorothea Lange. It’s a mother and her two daughters on the road in California in 1939. Note the composition, which was not planned, but was instinctively seen by Lange. Read more…
One day in 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange pulled up at a pea-pickers camp in California and snapped some pictures. Seven of those pictures were of Florence Thompson and her kids. One of those pictures, entitled “Migrant Mother”, became the most famous photo of the Great Depression. Lange’s notes read: “Destitute Read more…
“I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions.” Dorothea Lange in “The Assignment I’ll Never Forget: Migrant Mother” Dorothea Lange Read more…