Tag: Florence Owens Thompson

• Making Migrant Mother

  You probably know of Dorothea Lange’s famous 1936 photograph “Migrant Mother” (aka Florence Owens Thompson), an icon of the Great Depression. Perhaps you don’t know, as I didn’t, just how much the photo was staged and later altered. Evan Puschak of the video series The Nerdwriter breaks down the photo’s origin, the alterations (ghost thumb!),…

  Feb 1, 2019

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  # Florence Owens Thompson, history, Kottke, Migrant Mother, photography, The Great Depression