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Think “Great Depression” and the photo (albeit in black and white) on this book cover likely comes to mind pretty quickly–maybe just after an image of F.D.R. or of a man in a fine overcoat selling apples on the street. Maybe you se an image from the book or movie, The Grapes of Wrath. Dorothea Lange, the photographer who captured the image, was simply doing a government job, trying to keep her family going–just like the “Migrant Mother,” in her photograph. She was merely paid a normal ...more
Think “Great Depression” and the photo (albeit in black and white) on this book cover likely comes to mind pretty quickly–maybe just after an image of F.D.R. or of a man in a fine overcoat selling apples on the street. Maybe you se an image from the book or movie, The Grapes of Wrath. Dorothea Lange, the photographer who captured the image, was simply doing a government job, trying to keep her family going–just like the “Migrant Mother,” in her photograph. She was merely paid a normal ...more
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