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But even with federal efforts underway, the Dust Bowl continued over the rest of the decade. Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, her famous portrait of Florence Owens Thompson taken in 1936 ...
In “The Antidote,” set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s ... working for the New Deal agency as a photographer (think Dorothea Lange) — another way to store painful memories, Russell ...
Dorothea Lange’s Meeting of the Mothers’ Club (1938 ... came from Oklahoma to escape the Dust Bowl and were collectively called “Okies.” Jewel, my great-grandmother, left Oklahoma as a single mother ...
Migrant Woman (1936) might be Dorothea Lange’s most iconic work ... she had spent the previous years photographing—which is Dust Bowl refugees, Jim Crow South—the context of that, I think ...
7 x 9.75 cm. (2.8 x 3.8 in.) Paul S. Taylor and Dorothea Lange, Migration of drought refugees to California. April 17, 1935 (Washington, D.C.: Farm Security Administration, 1935), p. 12 In Focus: ...
In this country, it echoes the desolation of the 1930s Depression, and the Dust Bowl, when thousands of Americans left home to look for work somewhere ... anywhere. In Dorothea Lange: Seeing ...
the images of chains of misery as migrants fled the Dust Bowl to find employment in the West — ought to throw cold water on this theory. One photographer, Dorothea Lange, was responsible for the ...