On this Mother’s Day, a recontextualization of the world’s most famous photograph of a mother, Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother.” The famous Depression-era photograph of Florence Owens Thompson was one in a series of six photos taken at a camp in California, yet so many are unaware of the surroundings, the stark setting in which mother and children lived.
National Photo Month, 5/13/12
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