Research Catalog

Title

Dorothea Lange : Migrant Mother / Sarah Hermanson Meister.

Author

Meister, Sarah Hermanson,

Publication

• New York, NY : ARTBOOK, [2018]
• New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
• Turkey : Ofset Yapimevi, [2018]
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Lange, Dorothea.

Description

47 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 23 cm.

Summary

The US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) 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 mother, as if drawn by a magnet." The woman's name was Florence Owens Thompson, and the result of their encounter was seven exposures, including "Migrant Mother." Curator Sarah Meister's essay provides a fresh context for this iconic work.

Series Statement

MoMA one on one series

Uniform Title

1 on one.

Subject

• 1929
• Depressions > 1929 > United States > Pictorial works
• Depressions
• Documentary photography
• Lange, Dorothea > Criticism and interpretation
• Lange, Dorothea
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) > Photograph collections
• New York (State) > New York
• Photograph collections
• Photography > New York
• Photography
• Portrait photography
• United States

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• "Each volume in the One on One series is a sustained meditaion on a single work from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art"--Front cover, inside flap.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 46).

ISBN

• 9781633450660
• 163345066X

LCCN

2018945655

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries