Whitewashing the Great Depression
A Japanese mother and daughter, farmworkers in California, photographed in 1937 by Dorothea Lange (Library of Congress)Quick, name one iconic Depression-era portrait each by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Russell Lee. My guess is that you’d choose Lange’s Migrant Mother, a portrait of Florence Owens Thompson and her children taken in Nipomo, California, in 1936.