... the hardships of migrant farm families escaping the dust bowl. #Images such as "Migrant Mother, California," a portrait of a young widow with her children at a pea-pickers' camp in Nipomo, managed to capture not only their subject's despair, but their dignity as well. Migrant Mother the portrait of a Californian migrant worker with her three children. The face of the young woman is marked by wrinkles, the gaze full of worry directed in the distance. To the ... of the great photographs in this world. In the midst of the Depression, 14 million people were unemployed. Near Lange's studio in ...

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... finishing shop on her second day in San Francisco. She made friends with the shop's customers and with members of the San Francisco Camera Club, which she joined to gain use of their darkroom. A gifted budding photographer and personable young woman, Lange was soon offered the opportunity to start her own portrait studio by one of the camera club's wealthy members. Lange opened her studio at 540 Sutter Street ... . By 1920 Lange had met the man she would marry. A painter who frequented her studio, Maynard Dixon was a very popular Bay Area artist. Dixon's influence on Lange, as an individ...

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... finishing shop on her second day in San Francisco. She made friends with the shop's customers and with members of the San Francisco Camera Club, which she joined to gain use of their darkroom. A gifted budding photographer and personable young woman, Lange was soon offered the opportunity to start her own portrait studio by one of the camera club's wealthy members. Lange opened her studio at 540 Sutter Street ... . By 1920 Lange had met the man she would marry. A painter who frequented her studio, Maynard Dixon was a very popular Bay Area artist. Dixon's influence on Lange, as an individ...

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... visited the Fifth Avenue Protrait Studio of Arnold Genthe, who gave her her first camera. In 1918 Lange moved to San Francisco and was employed as a photofinisher. Shortly after Lange Had her own studio, 1919, where she worked as a freelance photographer and portrait photographer usually for San Francisco's upper class. Two years later she married the artist ... her camera and decided to capture the relationship between the two. Maynard is carrying his newborn son bare; how the child came to this world. Lange compasiontlly captures the innocence of the child. Giving the message that ther...

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