Janina Alarcon
Dorothea Lange, "Migrant Mother"
1936,
I picked this photo because I during my history class, in high school, that I talked about this. This picture was taken on 1936 during the Great Depression in Nipomo, California. It shows the tiredness of the mother with the way her family was living. At first, I thought that the child on her lap was dead and that the mother is in shock. The mother, which was thirty-two years old, told Lange that they survive by eating frozen vegetables in the surrounding fields and the birds that the children would kill. She thinks, that by allowing Lange to get their picture taken will have an impact to better their lives. Due to poverty, they were forced to live off their land and live wandering. The emotion that is illustrated, it made me tear up. Not only is this picture heartbreaking, it was the iconic photo of Great Depression.
