Photographer Dorothea Lange took this iconic photo, widely known as \u201cMigrant Mother,\u201d in 1936 during the Great Depression after the Dust Bowl that impoverished and displaced many Americans. The official notes read: \u201cDestitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.\u201d Lange took this photo while working for the Resettlement Administration, a government agency whose photographic work aimed both to record the reality of poverty (thereby defining it), but also to construct arguments about the success of government interventions. Lange commented on this photo in Popular Photography <\/em>in February 1960: \u201cThere she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.\u201d Does this photo frame Florence Owens and her children as the deserving or the undeserving poor?<\/p>\n Chapter 1 Visual: “Migrant Mother” photo by Dorothea Lange Photographer Dorothea Lange took this iconic photo, widely known as \u201cMigrant Mother,\u201d in 1936 during the Great Depression after the Dust Bowl that impoverished and displaced many Americans. The official notes … Continue reading <\/h2>\n
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Poverty Then and Now<\/h2>\n
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