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Florence Owens Thompson. Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange 's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California.
California Hall of Fame. Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression -era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized ...
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' New Deal work uses the large format, 8 × 10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera.
Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, by American photographer Dorothea Lange [ 1] during her time with the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration ). [ 2] The 28.3 by 21.8 cm (11 1/8 by 8 9/16 in) gelatin silver print depicts a mother anxiously gazing into the distance, with an infant ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. One of the most widely distributed photos of the abolitionist movement . [ s 3] Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington Arsenal. 7 July 1865. Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C., United States. [ s 1] Portrait of Sir John Herschel.
First edition (publ. Houghton Mifflin) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. The work documents the lives of impoverished tenant farmers during the Great Depression. Although it is in keeping with Evans's ...
August 28, 1986. (1986-08-28) (aged 83) Austin, Texas, United States. Russell Werner Lee (July 21, 1903 – August 28, 1986) [ 1] was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images documented the ethnography of various American classes and ...
November 24, 1990. (1990-11-24) (aged 80) Santa Barbara, California, U.S. Occupation. Photographer for the Farm Security Administration. Marion Post Wolcott (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and ...