Migrant Mother is a photograph made by Dorothea Lange in 1936, portraying Florence Owens Thompson, a thirty-two-year-old mother of seven, seated with two of her children turned away from the camera and burying their faces against her, photographed at a migrant labour camp for pea pickers in Nipomo, California. Made while Lange was working for the federal Resettlement Administration, later the Farm Security Administration, to document rural poverty during the Great Depression, the image was quickly distributed to newspapers and helped prompt emergency food aid to the camp within days of its publication. It has since become one of the most widely reproduced photographs in history and the single image most closely identified with the human cost of the Great Depression in the United States.
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Year Created MediumGelatin silver print (photograph) 1 Connections
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Migrant Mother was printed using the gelatin silver process.
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1. Migrant Mother (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIntroduction, sentence 2 (print format and dimensions)
The 28.3 by 21.8 cm (11 1/8 by 8 9/16 in) gelatin silver print depicts a mother anxiously gazing into the distance, with an infant in her lap and two older children huddling close by.
Introduction, sentence 1 (creation year and place)
Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, by American photographer Dorothea Lange during her time with the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration).
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Migrant Mother is a photograph made by Dorothea Lange in 1936, portraying Florence Owens Thompson, a thirty-two-year-old mother of seven, seated with two of her children turned away from the camera and burying their faces against her, photographed at a migrant labour camp for pea pickers in Nipomo, California.
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