There is much to be learned from analyzing Dorothea Lange’s photograph “Migrant Mother” and the article relating to it by Kevin Starr. The photograph shows a poor migrant family and how the conditions they have been living through have begun to wear them down. The article gives more personal information on the family, ones you wouldn’t have been able to get from the photo, like how the mother’s name was Florence Thompson and that, “...they had been living on frozen vegetables from surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed” (Starr 2). After the photo was released, many criticized Lange for focusing on the issue behind the photo and not the people in it since she hadn’t even asked for the name of the woman she photographed. After
