Portraits (Migrant mother)

Destitute pea pickers in California.
Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.
Lange, Dorothea, photographer.
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Migrant mother.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
1936 Feb.
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This is another of my favourite portraits. It is part of the Farm Security

Collections and this particular picture is shown before and after a retouch,
which is interesting to see. "Migrant mother" was also a part of the exhibition
Family of Man. In 1955 Edward Steichen organized that exhibition in New York.
It consisted of 508 photographs from sixty-eight countries. I will return to that
event, but perhaps you remember Steichen from my prior postings. He worked
with Alfred Stieglitz at "291" and with the journal Camera Work.