Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother Clothing & Accessories visiting small towns and cities

visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans

Recommended washing at 30 degrees using environment-friendly soap

this is a wonderful guide to a vibrant field in European art history that is often overlooked but deserves rediscovery and a place on the global stage

107cm x 107cm

Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother Clothing & Accessories visiting small towns and citiesThe US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (18951965) 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 day in Nipomo, California, Lange recalled, she "saw and approached [a] hungry and desperate