The Art Movement of Migrant Mother Photo by Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California March 1936
For many, Lange'southward Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California is the single most recognizable epitome from the Smashing Depression, epitomizing the desperate circumstances many institute themselves in during that period. The now-iconic photograph was made for the The states government's Resettlement Administration (renamed the Subcontract Security Assistants, or FSA, in 1937), a federal agency created to document and remedy the plight of the urban and rural poor in the 1930s. The photograph's pictorial force and emotional touch, combined with its recurring presence in newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, and displays, cemented its place in America's commonage memory of the era.
In the image, thirty-two-yr-old migrant farmworker Florence Owens Thompson and three of her children are depicted huddled together in a tent at a pea-pickers' camp in Nipomo, California. Lange's taut composition excludes all but the most essential data. In lieu of the girls' faces, we come across their tousled heads nestling against their female parent's shoulders; their anonymity serves to lend these familial bonds a sense of universality. Still, Lange's large negative captures a wealth of detail that anchors our experience in specific fact, from the frayed fabric to Thompson's weary, concerned, strikingly beautiful confront.
Lange'south work connected the descriptive style of documentary photography with the principle of social engagement. It has get a touchstone for photographers who feel that their work should not only tape social conditions only also persuade people to amend them.
Publication extract from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Fine art, 2019)
Dorothea Lange took this photograph on consignment for the U.Due south. government's Farm Security Assistants (FSA) program, formed during the Great Depression to provide assist to impoverished farmers. FSA photographers documented the atmospheric condition that Americans faced throughout the form of the Great Depression, a menstruation of economical crisis. Lange'southward photograph suggests the impact of these harsh weather condition on a 32-year-quondam mother of seven. She took a number of pictures of the mother with her children and chose this epitome as the nigh constructive. Her keen sense of limerick and attentiveness to the power of historical images of the Madonna and Kid take helped this photo transcend its original documentary function and become an iconic work of art
Additional text from Seeing Through Photographs online course, Coursera, 2016
- Medium
- Gelatin silverish print, printed 1949
- Dimensions
- 11 one/8 × 8 9/16" (28.3 × 21.8 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of the artist
- Object number
- 331.1995
- Section
- Photography
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
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Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics
Dec 31, 1940–Jan 12, 1941
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Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen
Oct eleven–November xv, 1949
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The Bitter Years: 1935–1941
Oct 18–Nov 25, 1962
three other works identified
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The Biting Years: 1935–1941
Oct xviii–Nov 25, 1962
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The Bitter Years: 1935–1941
Oct 18–Nov 25, 1962
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Dorothea Lange
Jan 26–Apr 10, 1966
iii other works identified
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The Creative person as Adversary
Jul one–Sep 27, 1971
2 other works identified
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Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American Westward
Mar 29–Jun 8, 2009
2 other works identified
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Into the Dusk: Photography'due south Image of the American Due west
Mar 29–Jun 8, 2009
i other work identified
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Pictures past Women: A History of Modern Photography
May 7, 2010–Apr 18, 2011
7 other works identified
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Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures
Feb ix–Sep 19, 2020
iv other works identified
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Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures
Feb 9–Sep 19, 2020
8 other works identified
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Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures
Feb ix–Sep xix, 2020
3 other works identified
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