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Jun 20, 2018 · Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange is the picture that captured the misery of the Great Depression – the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world. As an...
This image became the most iconic picture of the Depression. Lange photographs migrant pea-picker, 32-year-old Florence Thompson with three of her children. The farm crops had frozen and...
Nov 5, 2023 · The Great Depression was not merely a financial crisis but a seismic global event that reshaped the 20th century. Beginning with the infamous stock market crash of 1929 and stretching throughout the 1930s, this period saw the world stagger under unparalleled economic hardship.
Jul 22, 2024 · One of the most famous is the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, which tells the story of the Joad family and their long trek from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl to California during the Great Depression.
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- White Angel Breadline, San Francisco (1933) Dorothea Lange. White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco, 1933. Christie's. Bidding closed. Advertisement. For Lange, 1933 was a momentous year.
- Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936) Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA, 1936. Aperture. Price on request. Shot after finishing an assignment in central California for the FSA, Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936) is the most iconic image depicting the Great Depression.
- Ex-Slave with Long Memory, Alabama (ca. 1937) Dorothea Lange. Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama, 1938. Phillips. Bidding closed. Over the course of the 1930s, Lange took several lengthy road trips on her FSA beat.
- The Road West, New Mexico (1938) Dorothea Lange. The Road West, U.S. 54 in Southern New Mexico, 1938. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Permanent collection.
Lange took her photo while traveling across the United States during the Great Depression, a period of severe economic hardship that spanned the decade between 1929 and 1939.
In this iconic photograph, Dorothea Lange captured the suffering of migrant workers affected by the Dust Bowl and the economic fallout of the Great Depression. Lange highlights the impact of these events on farmers and agricultural laborers, who were less visible than urban unemployed masses.