Photographer Dorothea Lange’s most famed photograph “Migrant Mother” is considered by many to be synonymous with the great depression era and the struggle faced by southwestern migrants looking for better opportunity in California. The image of a destitute mother, Florence Thompson, was spread across American newspaper and the image is credited with having “made Americans aware of the story of the dust bowl.”, alongside other similar individual accounts. Lange’s snapshot of Florence Thompson seems to have been captured in a candid moment, as if Lange had just happened upon Thompson and captured the image as it unfolded in front of her camera’s lens. “Migrant Mother” is actually the sixth shot in a series, Lange often instructed her subjects’
