Masters of Photography: Migrant Mother, 1936 by Dorothea Lange: Digital Photo

Description: Masters of Photography: Migrant Mother, California 1936 Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) Full Size Digital Photograph 10 x 7.85 inches This reproduction is a new, individually printed and proofed, giclee* process digital photographic photograph.It is printed on Epson Ultra Premium Luster Finish Paper with archival pigment inks. This premium grade, heavyweight fine art paper has a rich luster surface finish and is engineered to render the highest color gamut available for vivid color reproduction and highly saturated prints.Image Size: 10 x 7.85 inches printed on larger 13 x 10.5 inch paper to allow ample borders for matting and framingOne of the most iconic photographs in the history of American documentary photography in the 20th century was Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother", 1936. One the defining images of the Great Depression, The Library of Congress entitled the image, "Destitute pea pickers in California.”This reproduction shows the original “Eastman Kodak Nitrate” film label marking printed along the bottom edge of the negative and either an inventory or negative identification number hand written in the left margin.Florence Owens Thompson, 32, mother of seven children had been picking beets in March 1936 in the Imperial Valley, as her family traveled on U.S. Highway 101 towards Watsonville "where they had hoped to find work in the lettuce fields of the Pajaro Valley.“On the road, the car timing chain snapped and they coasted to a stop just inside a pea-picker's camp on Nipomo Mesa. They were shocked to find so many people camping there – as many as 2,500 to 3,500. A notice had been sent out for pickers, but the crops had been destroyed by freezing rain, leaving them without work or pay. Florence would relate in an interview years later, that when she cooked food for her children that day, little children appeared from the pea picker's camp asking, "Can I have a bite?Dorothea Lange, working for the Resettlement Administration, drove up and started taking photos of Florence and her family. Over 10 minutes she took 6 images.Lange's field notes of the images read:"Seven hungry children. Father is native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers’ camp … because of failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tires to buy food."Lange later wrote of the meeting:"I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.”In 1998 a U.S. stamp of the photograph was issued, and a print of the photograph with Lange's handwritten notes and signature sold in 1998 for $244,500 at Sotheby’s In November 2002. Dorothea Lange's personal print of Migrant Mother sold at Christie's New York for $141,500.Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.American art encompasses the history of drawing, illustration, painting, photography and a wide range of visual art genres. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style based mainly on Western painting and European arts.A parallel development taking shape in rural America was the American craft movement, which began as a reaction to the industrial revolution. After World War II, New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world. Since then many American movements have shaped Modern and Postmodern art. Art in the United States covers a huge range of styles and subjects.Original Medium: Silver Halide Photograph from a 4 x 5 inch negative. Reproduction Medium: Digital Photograph, Fine Art Paper, Archival Pigment InksImage Size: 10 x 7.85 inches printed on larger paper to allow ample borders for matting and framing Shipping Policy: Combined Shipping Costs on Multiple Print Orders Since I offer multiple Fine Art Reproductions on eBay concurrently, I combine orders to reduce your mailing costs. For multiple print orders please request invoice that will include final shipping and handling charges. US First Class Mail & First Class Mail International Prints ship in a premium quality, heavy protective cardboard tube, US First Class Mail or US First Class Mail International.

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