Migrant mother
Photograph
ca. 1936 (made)
ca. 1936 (made)
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photographic print on paper
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | photographic paper, photography |
| Brief description | Photograph by Dorothea Lange. 'Mother of seven, destitute migrant pea-pickers/Migrant Mother', California, 1936 |
| Physical description | photographic print on paper |
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| Credit line | Acquired from The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. in 1973. |
| Object history | Along with photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange worked for the American government’s Farm Security Administration programme during the Great Depression of the 1930's. The F.S.A. was set up to relieve poverty in rural areas but also involved photographing conditions faced by displaced farmers who had been hit by the Depression and by drought. Lange’s Californian Migrant Mother is one of the most widely known of all photographs; the tightly composed, highly concentrated composition has made it an icon of socially committed photography. |
| Production | Migrant Mother, Nipomo |
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| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1973 |
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| Accession number | CIRC.113-1973 |
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| Record created | July 28, 2003 |
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