Behind the icon, Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo California, 1936, printed later, gelatin silver print, 35.24 x 27.78 cm (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, PG.1997.2), a Seeing America video.

Speakers: Eve Schillo, Assistant Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Steven Zucker

[ethanmilgram]

Ironically, I drove right by the LACMA yesterday. Had I seen this sooner, I would have gone there instead of the Petersen Museum. Great video as always! I learn so much about history as well as art from this channel. Gary

[visualframer]

Too good... I can't skip any of this..👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻my favorite youtube chanel

[tsm]

It conveys deep raw emotion. I sympathize to this day. May we not forget where we came from. Thank u ancestors

[WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Oh weird, I was just at LACMA yesterday but I get to keep learning today! Thanks for the upload!

[Sasha]

Dorothea Lange really did succeed, my goodness...
It reminds me of the mine disaster - you can't get past the expression. It's also unintentionally powerful how her sons both look away, like only she can face what's before them. I would've thought this was staged.
I'm glad to hear the pickers received aid and hope people everywhere are still being provided for today. I feel fortunate now.

[DipityS]

Oh my, to learn that little fact of her ancestry does add another layer. I was thinking she was a handsome women, so easily seeing her face as that of a rich woman, born into wealth, and those lines of worry soothed away.

[thinktonka]

Have you covered Orthodox art and places of worship?

[SKF]

Interesting video. The 1830s migration seems a stretch to associate with this photo of a thirty year old mother a hundred years later. But it is intriguing news to me. The photo itself is one of the best and most impactful in photography history. And, notably, black and white on paper. Take that, the idea of digital "advancements in all things."

[Tsumami__]

I didn’t realize she was only 32 when that photo was taken. She looks a decade older.

[lemorab]

I wonder how much money the U.S. Government has made off of this photo, one of the most iconic ever taken? I don't think the family in the photo ever received any compensation. I saw an interview with the kids in the picture, when they were grown.