Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother Nadirah Malarve
In the year of 1938 , photographer Dorothea Lange, took one of Americas most captivating and touching series of photographs entitled The Migrant mother. In her photographs, she showed pictures of a mother and her two children, during the Great Depression in which the family seem completely destitute, while setting up camp to find work in the city. This photograph symbolized the Great Depression as it shows how many lives of Americans were affected by the storm and depicts the numerous struggles they had to undergo.
It all started in 1936 where Dorothea Lange was heading her way back home home after she completed a long an tiring photographic assignment where she had noticed signs of a camp. After curiously scavenging the scene, she was immediately drawn to a woman who showed an appearance of saddened pain, hunger and need of salvation where she began taking pictures. The woman she photographed was Florence Owens Thompson, the mother of seven children and on the brink of starvation. While she was photographing this woman she mad notes of what she had encountered, in one she said: "I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.” little did this struggling mother of seven know that she would later become the epitome of many American families going through hardships at the time.
This photograph was jammed packed with emotions that many was able to relate to. It showed many elements of weariness, pain, anger, destitution, and depression all in one strong yet subtle photograph. After publicized, this photograph not only showed the various emotions that Thompson was feeling, but what many in America was feeling as whole. In a sense this photograph symbolized hope for the nation to strive to make it through the
In the year of 1938 , photographer Dorothea Lange, took one of Americas most captivating and touching series of photographs entitled The Migrant mother. In her photographs, she showed pictures of a mother and her two children, during the Great Depression in which the family seem completely destitute, while setting up camp to find work in the city. This photograph symbolized the Great Depression as it shows how many lives of Americans were affected by the storm and depicts the numerous struggles they had to undergo.
It all started in 1936 where Dorothea Lange was heading her way back home home after she completed a long an tiring photographic assignment where she had noticed signs of a camp. After curiously scavenging the scene, she was immediately drawn to a woman who showed an appearance of saddened pain, hunger and need of salvation where she began taking pictures. The woman she photographed was Florence Owens Thompson, the mother of seven children and on the brink of starvation. While she was photographing this woman she mad notes of what she had encountered, in one she said: "I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.” little did this struggling mother of seven know that she would later become the epitome of many American families going through hardships at the time.
This photograph was jammed packed with emotions that many was able to relate to. It showed many elements of weariness, pain, anger, destitution, and depression all in one strong yet subtle photograph. After publicized, this photograph not only showed the various emotions that Thompson was feeling, but what many in America was feeling as whole. In a sense this photograph symbolized hope for the nation to strive to make it through the