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Dorothea Lange : Migrant Mother
- Title
- Dorothea Lange : Migrant Mother / Sarah Hermanson Meister.
- Author
- Meister, Sarah Hermanson
- Publication
- New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
- New York, NY : ARTBOOK, [2018]
- Turkey : Ofset Yapimevi, [2018]
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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
- Subjects
- Depressions
- Photography
- Pictorial works
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 1929
- Crises économiques > 1929 > États-Unis > Ouvrages illustrés
- Portraits (Photographie) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Photographie documentaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle
- United States
- New York (State) > New York
- Portrait photography
- Photograph collections
- Documentary photography
- Photography > New York (State) > New York
- Depressions > 1929 > United States > Pictorial works
- Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965 > Critique et interprétation
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Photograph collections
- Lange, Dorothea > Criticism and interpretation
- Lange, Dorothea > Migrant mother
- 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
- OCLC
- on1043426954
- SCSB-9410149
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library