Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother: MoMA One on One Series - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163345066X ISBN 13: 9781633450660

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

The history behind Ms. Lange’s photograph of Florence Owens Thompson has intrigued academics and photographers for decades. But a new book sheds fresh light on the portrait’s little-explored details. (James Estrin The New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 163345066X
• ISBN 13: 9781633450660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 47