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I have never seen this picture before but it seems a poor family going through a bad patch, a family with few resources. She looks thoughtful and maybe resigned. The kids are just kids but they seem tired and sad.
ReplyDeleteEven if you didn't know the picture, you've described it very well.
DeleteI love this photo, even if it's sad. I think it's a work of art.
I've seen this picture several times. It is an iconic image of the Great Depression in the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, during the economic depressión.
ReplyDeleteIt is a powerful image that explains the cruelty of the savage Liberalism. After that crisis, the Liberalism in that country changed and started the economic protectionism until the Goverment of Reagan in the Eighties. After Reagan, Lehman Brothers, remember.
It is interesting the movie by John Ford, based in the novel of Steinbeck, 'The grapes of wrath', telling that historical moment.
Thanks for all the info.
DeleteJust a couple of corrections: the movie by JF is interesting,The Grapes of Wrath (the capitals are necessary in English.
A question: What's the Dust Bowl?
Thanks to Jose Luis comment I found this information on internet that I transcribe literally from this web page (https://www.history.com/news/migrant-mother-new-deal-great-depression):
ReplyDelete"A woman in ragged clothing holds a baby as two more children huddle close, hiding their faces behind her shoulders. The mother squints into the distance, one hand lifted to her mouth and anxiety etched deep in the lines on her face.
From the moment it first appeared in the pages of a San Francisco newspaper in March 1936, the image known as “Migrant Mother” came to symbolize the hunger, poverty and hopelessness endured by so many Americans during the Great Depression. The photographer Dorothea Lange had taken the shot, along with a series of others, days earlier in a camp of migrant farm workers in Nipomo, California."
Cristina
That's the story I knew, but I didn't remember the title. Thanks so much.
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