Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother: MoMA One on One Series

by Dorothea Lange and Sarah Hermanson Meister

Lange's iconic portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, revisited

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163345066X
• ISBN13: 9781633450660
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 8.9"