The woman who became the face of the Great Depression
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
This is quite interesting, one of the the girls in the picture of Dorothea Lange, who was 4 years old when the image was taken, remembers her mother and the great depression … full article with videos here. I always wonder how people that are portrayed in epic pictures like Migrant Mother felt about it.
If you like this image as much as I do, you can get a full file with a high resolution scan here, and print it at home -as I did.
The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame — and determination — to her family.
“I wanted to make sure I never lived like that again,” says McIntosh, who turns 77 on Saturday. “We all worked hard and we all had good jobs and we all stayed with it. When we got a home, we stayed with it.”
McIntosh is the girl to the left of her mother when you look at the photograph. The picture is best known as “Migrant Mother,” a black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson, then 32, and her children. [source]
Another account of the story of the image can be found here.
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