Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection:
The photograph that has become known as “Migrant Mother” is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month’s trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration.
The images were made using a Graflex camera. The original negatives are 4×5″ film.
