... divorcing her husband, Maynard Dixon. She then married an economics Professor from University of California, Berkeley by the name of Paul Schuster Taylor. For five years they traveled and documented the Great Depression with all of its social and political matters. Migrant Mother, her most famous work, depicts a mother by the name of Florence Owens Thompson. In the photo she has a hand on her face, a child in arms, and ... in a chair holding her sleeping child. The background is slightly blurred but you can still make out a few items that are there. Was life really that hard then? As we ...

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... . In 1935, Evans joined the Farm Security Administration (FSA) recording the poverty of America's rural population. The great Depression, starting with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, coupled with the Dust Bowl disaster in Oklahoma, made it a period of extreme hardship. Dorothea Lange lived from 1885 to 1965. Lange was one of the best FSA photographers. She toured the South where she found the most impoverished and desperate victims of the depression, the Blacks. Philippe Halsman lived from ... 1906 to 1979. In the late 1920's, Halsman ... ...

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... her life was about to change. She returned to San Francisco to begin the second--and most important--stage of her career. Lange reentered the city during the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent the nation into its worst economic depression in history. Like others all around her, she was directly affected by the Great Depression. Customers had no money for portraits, and payment on previously commissioned work was ... stopped. But most of all, it was the suffering of others that affected Lange. Seeing the thousands of city residents ... ...

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... her life was about to change. She returned to San Francisco to begin the second--and most important--stage of her career. Lange reentered the city during the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent the nation into its worst economic depression in history. Like others all around her, she was directly affected by the Great Depression. Customers had no money for portraits, and payment on previously commissioned work was ... stopped. But most of all, it was the suffering of others that affected Lange. Seeing the thousands of city residents ... ...

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... the worst depression of the 20th century and is still used as an example of just how bad our economy can get to this day. The Great Depression affected not only the stock market and banks but also had an effect on almost every citizen's personal bank account, all of which tend to have a domino effect on one another. During "Black Tuesday", the day of the stock market crash of 1929 ... , chaos ensued as people rushed to the banks to try to save ... Dorothea Lange. This photo undoubtedly epitomizes not only the Great Depression or documentary photography but of the struggles of a mother an...

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