"Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California". 1936/printed 1970s by the Library of Congress. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 25 x 20,5 cm. Number notations in pencil and Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress stamp on the verso. In 1936 Dorothea Lange set out to document the conditions of migrant farm workers for the Farm Security Administration (then the Resettlement Administration) and it was toward the end of her one month trip when she encountered the family of a mother of seven children in Nipomo, California. Lange took a series of images of the family in and around their tent, among them the famous "Migrant Mother", which became an icon of the Depression era as well as a milestone of photographic history. This and the following image are a part of the series and they show other facets of the family's plight, some just as powerful as the image which became an icon. – A few minimal handling marks and light surface irregularities, more visible in raking light, otherwise in very good condition. Lit.: Dorothea Lange Photographs of a Lifetime. New York 1982, ill. p. 21.
"Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California". 1936/printed 1970s by the Library of Congress. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 25 x 20,5 cm. Number notations in pencil and Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress stamp on the verso. In 1936 Dorothea Lange set out to document the conditions of migrant farm workers for the Farm Security Administration (then the Resettlement Administration) and it was toward the end of her one month trip when she encountered the family of a mother of seven children in Nipomo, California. Lange took a series of images of the family in and around their tent, among them the famous "Migrant Mother", which became an icon of the Depression era as well as a milestone of photographic history. This and the following image are a part of the series and they show other facets of the family's plight, some just as powerful as the image which became an icon. – A few minimal handling marks and light surface irregularities, more visible in raking light, otherwise in very good condition. Lit.: Dorothea Lange Photographs of a Lifetime. New York 1982, ill. p. 21.
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