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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. Mother of seven children.
In the tent was the mother, her teenage daughter, and three young children. Realizing that these photographs lacked a central focus, Lange honed in on the mother and her children. [5] Lange moved closer to the tent and took a third snapshot of just the mother and her baby, asking the two young children at her side to move out of the frame.
Lange's work was distributed to newspapers across the country, and the poignant images became icons of the era. One of Lange's most recognized works is Migrant Mother, published in 1936. [18] The woman in the photograph is Florence Owens Thompson. In 1960, Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph:
English: Portrait shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother". The Library of Congress caption reads: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California." In the 1930s, the FSA employed several photographers to document the effects of the Great ...
[80] [81] On June 6, 2023, Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart, a biography by film scholar, historian, and journalist Anthony Uzarowski, was released. [82] Lange returned to Broadway to originate the lead role in a Second Stage Theater presentation of Paula Vogel's new play, Mother Play, which premiered at the Hayes Theater in April 2024. [7]
In “Mother Play,” which hails from playwright Paula Vogel, Lange plays the troubled mother of two children (Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger) trying her hardest to maintain a home for them.
In Paula Vogel’s semi-autobiographical “Mother Play,” Lange plays a woman and mother (to children portrayed by fellow Tony nominees Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger) in scenes that span ...
15-year-old Lange modeling the "Man-from-Mars, Radio Hat", 1949. Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut. [2] Her father, John George Lange, was a cellist and the music arranger for Florenz Ziegfeld and conductor for Henry Cohen; her mother, Minette (née Buddecke), was an actress. [3]