| Description |
47 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm |
| Series |
1 on one
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| Summary |
The US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) began documenting its impact through depictions of unemployed men on the streets of San Francisco. Her success won the attention of Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration), and in 1935 she started photographing the rural poor under its auspices. One day in Nipomo, California, Lange recalled, she "saw and approached [a] hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet." The woman's name was Florence Owens Thompson, and the result of their encounter was seven exposures, including "Migrant Mother." Curator Sarah Meister's essay provides a fresh context for this iconic work. |
| Notes |
"Each volume in the One on One series is a sustained meditaion on a single work from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art" -- Front cover, inside flap |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) |
| Subject |
Lange, Dorothea. Migrant mother
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Lange, Dorothea -- Criticism and interpretation
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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Photograph collections
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Documentary photography
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Portrait photography
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Pictorial works
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Photography -- New York (State) -- New York
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Pictorial works.
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| Author |
Lange, Dorothea.
Migrant mother
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| LC no. |
2018945655 |
| ISBN |
9781633450660 paperback |
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163345066X paperback |
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