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(81,626 posts)Biophilic
(3,701 posts)to look for references for that picture before they used it. Either way the jerks who used it are working way above their thinking skills.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,644 posts)crud
(627 posts)tho I'm not doubting it could be real. Folks stupider and stupider
Bristlecone
(10,135 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,979 posts)FSA photographer Dorothea Lange.
About that image:
Dorothea Lange took this photograph in 1936, while employed by the U.S. governments Farm Security Administration (FSA) program, formed during the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished farmers. In Nipomo, California, Lange came across Florence Owens Thompson and her children in a camp filled with field workers whose livelihoods were devastated by the failure of the pea crops. Recalling her encounter with Thompson years later, she said, 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. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction.1 One photograph from that shoot, now known as Migrant Mother, was widely circulated to magazines and newspapers and became a symbol of the plight of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression.
As Lange described Thompsons situation, She and her children had been living on frozen vegetables from the field and wild birds the children caught. The pea crop had frozen; there was no work. Yet they could not move on, for she had just sold the tires from the car to buy food.2 However, Thompson later contested Langes account. When a reporter interviewed her in the 1970s, she insisted that she and Lange did not speak to each other, nor did she sell the tires of her car. Thompson said that Lange had either confused her for another farmer or embellished what she had understood of her situation in order to make a better story.
Source: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother-nipomo-california-1936/
Demovictory9
(32,479 posts)they went on to middle class lives
obamanut2012
(26,148 posts)They moved to SOCAL, got decent union jobs, had decent homes and lives, sent their kids to college, and mainly voted GOP. The last point had always confounded me.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Or gross insensitivity.
Advertisers have no shame.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)I saw Dorothea Lange's photos when it was exhibited in my local museum years ago, and they touched me deeply, just moved me to tears. Everyone who gets a chance to see them should.
"Dorothea Lange, who is best known for her work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. Langes migrant mother photograph, included in the exhibition, has become an icon of the Dust Bowl era and the desperation that drove families to head west from Oklahoma to California. From 1935-1944, The Farm Security Administration used photographs by Lange, Walker Evans, Russell Lee, and Arthur Rothstein to document rural poverty. Langes documentary style, which simultaneously exposed deficiencies in the American social system and identified the beauty and strength of her subjects, became a paradigm for others to emulate; her influence reverberates throughout the exhibition."
https://nsuartmuseum.org/exhibition/american-scene-photography-martin-z-margulies-collection/