Minneapolis Institute of Art

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

Dorothea Lange; Depicted: Florence Owens Thompson

Date

1936

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Dorothea Lange was a prolific member of the pioneering team of photographers hired by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. She concentrated largely on the unemployed and displaced farmworkers of the American West and Southwest, revealing their plight and circumstances with great compassion, humanity, and considerable insight. This arresting image has appeared in countless textbooks and histories of that difficult period in American history. United States, Americas

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