"Migrant Mother" is a 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange that captures the desperation and resilience of a migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. The photograph, taken in Nipomo, California, features Florence Owens Thompson, a young mother, and her children, their faces drawn and weathered, with a look of profound sadness and exhaustion. Thompson holds her youngest child, who is bundled in a blanket, while her other children huddle around her. The photograph's composition, with the family clustered tightly together and their worn clothing, emphasizes their poverty and lack of resources. The stark setting of the makeshift camp, with a tattered tent in the background, underscores their displacement and vulnerability. "Migrant Mother" became an iconic symbol of the human cost of the Depression, and its powerful imagery continues to resonate with viewers today.
