Pea Pickers Camp Nipomo Analysis

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.I have learned that the Migrant family is that they would sometimes starve because they were living off frozen vegetables and birds that the children would kill. I agree that she it was a good idea to photograph her family from a detached perspective because if she didn't they would have had to wait more time. They would take more time on investigating who she was. Dorothea Lange at least knew were she was located which was at "Pea Pickers Camp" in Nipomo. In my opinion I don't think knowing her name would help in any reason because she still had evidence of how they were living. Really all they needed to know was the town. She might have had many mistakes on how many people there were or not getting there names but the pictures still had

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