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A TRIBUTE TO DOROTHEA LANGE
$700,000,000,000 is the amount of money George Bush asked the congress to put up for the bail out of the sub-prime mortgage failure on
Wall Street last week and to cover the damage caused by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
$700,000,000,000, ironically is the amount of money we shipped to the middle east this year to purchase imported oil.
(ABOUT THE ABOVE PHOTOS)
On a cold early spring day in March of 1936 near Nipomo California, Dorothea Lange, a Photo Journalist and documentary photographer for the Farm Security Administration came upon this scene in a migrant labor camp. This was during the height of the Great Depression. Like so many Photo Journalist, we capture the scene, the face ,the eyes and emotion of the moment but fail to get the story behind all of these.
Dorothea Lange made this mistake that day. She took six photographs and for what ever reason,maybe not wanting to make the woman uncomfortable, only asked her age.
However, Dorothea did something that day that would move a nation,she took those photos to a newspaper and the next day they were viewed across California and eventually around the nation and world. The impact on the labor camp at Nipomo was immediate. A steady stream of cars visited that camp and others around California bringing food, warm clothing and even medical doctors. It would be several decades before we would learn the name of the woman in the photo and she would be known only as "The Migrant Mother".
The face in the photo was a real person who struggled through the
Great Depression of 1929. Please go to the link below and let her Grandson tell her story. He can do it better than I.
A TRIBUTE TO DOROTHEA LANGE
$700,000,000,000 is the amount of money George Bush asked the congress to put up for the bail out of the sub-prime mortgage failure on
Wall Street last week and to cover the damage caused by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
$700,000,000,000, ironically is the amount of money we shipped to the middle east this year to purchase imported oil.
(ABOUT THE ABOVE PHOTOS)
On a cold early spring day in March of 1936 near Nipomo California, Dorothea Lange, a Photo Journalist and documentary photographer for the Farm Security Administration came upon this scene in a migrant labor camp. This was during the height of the Great Depression. Like so many Photo Journalist, we capture the scene, the face ,the eyes and emotion of the moment but fail to get the story behind all of these.
Dorothea Lange made this mistake that day. She took six photographs and for what ever reason,maybe not wanting to make the woman uncomfortable, only asked her age.
However, Dorothea did something that day that would move a nation,she took those photos to a newspaper and the next day they were viewed across California and eventually around the nation and world. The impact on the labor camp at Nipomo was immediate. A steady stream of cars visited that camp and others around California bringing food, warm clothing and even medical doctors. It would be several decades before we would learn the name of the woman in the photo and she would be known only as "The Migrant Mother".
The face in the photo was a real person who struggled through the
Great Depression of 1929. Please go to the link below and let her Grandson tell her story. He can do it better than I.