Dorothea Lange, Migrant Family, Dallas, Texas, 1970, Photograph

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The original photograph was taken in 1936 and later printed in 1970 by the United States Library of Congress. Ferrotype … Read more The original photograph was taken in 1936 and later printed in 1970 by the United States Library of Congress. Ferrotype gelatin silver technique, sealed on the back, sold unframed, glued to the mat, with annotations on the back of the control number. Date: August 1936
"Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. People have left their home and connections in South Texas and hope to get to the Arkansas Delta to work in the cotton fields. People without a cent. Without food and with three gallons of gasoline in the tank.
The father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. The father says, "It's hard, but life is hard anyway."

Born in 1895, Dorothea Lange became one of the most iconic photographers during the Great Depression for her striking and compelling photographs of immigrant families and homeless farmers.
Lange took photographs for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), an agency established by the United States Department of Agriculture, hoping that his "powerful images" would show the public the reality of the brutal conditions of the poor in the areas. rural.
His work is now housed in the Library of Congress and stored in its online database,

Most of Lange's photographs were taken during the summer months and show tenant farmers who had become day laborers and were not guaranteed a next day's work, or farmers who were "tractor-dragged", that is, who The landowner bought a tractor, kept the workers needed to operate it, and got rid of the rest, leaving them jobless and nowhere to go. This piece has an attribution mark,
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