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snooper2

(30,151 posts) Mon Mar 27, 2017, 12:49 PM Mar 2017

Who was the Woman in the Famous Great Depression Photograph?

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Who was the Woman in the Famous Great Depression Photograph? (Original Post) snooper2 Mar 2017 OP

Photographer Dorothea Lange elleng Mar 2017 #1

From Wikipedia TBA Mar 2017 #2

I feel sad she wasn't treated with respect. madaboutharry Mar 2017 #3

Well, Lange lied about not publishing them Warpy Mar 2017 #4

elleng

(130,942 posts)

1. Photographer Dorothea Lange

Reply to snooper2 (Original post)

Mon Mar 27, 2017, 01:03 PM

Mar 2017

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/

TBA

(825 posts)

2. From Wikipedia

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Mon Mar 27, 2017, 01:03 PM

Mar 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Owens_Thompson

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)

3. I feel sad she wasn't treated with respect.

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Mon Mar 27, 2017, 01:22 PM

Mar 2017

She was right to feel hurt by the photographs

Warpy

(111,267 posts)

4. Well, Lange lied about not publishing them

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 27, 2017, 02:44 PM

Mar 2017

because she didn't have the last say. Still, it's an amazing photograph, one to be proud of since it woke up a lot of people to the human cost of the Dust Bowl and the loss of so many family farms.

The ironic part is that she and her children were some of the few in that desperate place to have something to eat. Most of the others didn't and the work they'd counted on wasn't there because of a freak storm. The despair came from turning starving children away so her own children could eat.

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