Under the title of "Migrant Mother", this portrait is one of the most iconic and famous snapshots in the history of the United States. The capture of Lange took place in 1936 during her visit to a pea collection camp.
Under the title of "Migrant Mother", this portrait is one of the most iconic and famous snapshots in the history of the United States. The capture of Lange took place in 1936 during her visit to a pea collection camp.
Speaking of quotas in art may sound like an administrative shortcut applied to a field that is supposed to thrive on freedom of vision. Yet a review of photographic history shows that the visibility of women authors has rarely depended on quality alone.
Dorothea Lange, A woman who decided to break the paradigms of an epoch in which photographers did not leave their studios. With the United States summed in the Great Depression