“Migrant Mother,” by Dorothea Lange, is
the most famous photo in the Library of
Congress. This 1936 portrait of Florence
Thompson and her children symbolizes
both economic hardship and the strength
to survive. The Library is honored to
preserve Lange's original camera
negative and makes the digitized photo
freely available.
"Migrant Mother" is part of a
landmark photo documentary project
based in the U.S. Resettlement
Administration, the Farm Security
Administration (FSA), and later the
Office of War Information (OWI). The
most active years were 1935-1943, and
the entire collection was transferred to
us in 1944.
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Dream career number two...photographer.
I write to express the pictures in my head, but an actual photograph can say so much. At first glance, the picture above screams so many emotions...many of which have not changed much over the years. As a mother, I too fret over the what if in life and how they will affect my child. Can I keep her safe, fed, healthy, happy...alive.
There's a starkness to the picture above, and there is incredible beauty...
I would love to be able to catch those moments with my camera.
A Day in the Life of Serena
Song of the Day: Palomino by Duran Duran
Currently Reading: Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
Currently Writing: Whatever the muse wants! Editing:
The Submission
Quote of the Day:
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of
being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that
it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant,
expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
Jack London
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