Migrant Mother
How do you interpret the image? What is your context for interpreting that image, and how may it correspond to the image of the painter or photographer who made the image? What power relation and status do you find in the image? How does Bordo help you understand the power of gender roles in this image?
The picture named “Migrant Mother” taken by Dorothea Lange at Pea-picker camp in Nipomo, California during the Great Depression 1936. In the picture there were a mom and three children. The central of this picture focused on the mom with her face showed the sadness and sorrow while two children’s face was hidden by leaning to their mother. That is a simple black-white photograph but it hides a lot of meaning inside. It was great and powerful icon for the Great Depression. We could imagine how hard they have been through under that time. Besides, it is telling that the woman was the source of strength and hope for the whole family. She was a major column that supports the house from collapse. It means the power of gender roles was changed. Women are not only representative for beauty of appearance but also strength of doing and that was also one of the main points Bordo discussed in the “Beauty rediscovers the Male Body.” The photograph shows the struggles and sufferings of these people through the details shown on the mother and the children. The details in this photograph are very distinct and important to the overall interpretation of the image. There are four people visible in this photograph including a middle-age woman, two children, and an infant. The woman is in the center of the photograph, taking up most of space, and she is surrounded by her children. The background of the photograph was blurring made the face of a middle-aged woman standout with sadness and sullen. The woman's eyebrows are squished together. She doesn’t feel pleasure. She could be hungry or hurt. She is not looking at the camera’s direction, but something far away in the
The picture named “Migrant Mother” taken by Dorothea Lange at Pea-picker camp in Nipomo, California during the Great Depression 1936. In the picture there were a mom and three children. The central of this picture focused on the mom with her face showed the sadness and sorrow while two children’s face was hidden by leaning to their mother. That is a simple black-white photograph but it hides a lot of meaning inside. It was great and powerful icon for the Great Depression. We could imagine how hard they have been through under that time. Besides, it is telling that the woman was the source of strength and hope for the whole family. She was a major column that supports the house from collapse. It means the power of gender roles was changed. Women are not only representative for beauty of appearance but also strength of doing and that was also one of the main points Bordo discussed in the “Beauty rediscovers the Male Body.” The photograph shows the struggles and sufferings of these people through the details shown on the mother and the children. The details in this photograph are very distinct and important to the overall interpretation of the image. There are four people visible in this photograph including a middle-age woman, two children, and an infant. The woman is in the center of the photograph, taking up most of space, and she is surrounded by her children. The background of the photograph was blurring made the face of a middle-aged woman standout with sadness and sullen. The woman's eyebrows are squished together. She doesn’t feel pleasure. She could be hungry or hurt. She is not looking at the camera’s direction, but something far away in the