Analysis Of Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother

At times, a photograph provokes a large sympathy more directly rather than any other writing or record. In Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," I could see the face and neck of a woman whose face was wrinkled, and two young children surrounding the woman’s neck and shoulders. The picture contains a symbolic and historical image of the mother who had to survive by risking her children's lives during the time of the Great Depression. Throughout this photograph, I could think that she was very maternal toward her children. I could also feel the concern of her thoughts about how she can raise and lead these two children properly. I thought she was missing for something like her husband who did not appear in the photograph or the peace that seems to never come. This photograph also does not have any background completely shown and instead only shows three people closely. It gave me feelings of sorrow because the emotions on her face were portrayed specifically. I could feel her thoughts of anguish by her wrinkles in the face and her anxiety by the expression in her eyes. Furthermore, there is no one who looked straight to the camera. By this fact, I thought her lethargic situation could be exposed …show more content…
As the stock market collapsed in 1929, the entire U.S. economy began to plunge into the abyss of a long slump, and many of the farming states suffered from the worst of the disaster. In the area of Farm Security Administration that was made as one kind of “New Deal,” the government started a business to record the misery of the United States farming area. Dorothea Lange started photography for participating FSA since the 1930s, and she took this photograph in 1936. This photo became the most famous of the 25 million photographs recorded by FSA. Accordingly, Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" became the biggest masterpiece of the Great Depression (“Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Dorothea