Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother Start Price USD 600.00 Current Price USD 600.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, May 12, 2008 End Time Monday, May 19, 2008 Location Hollywood, CA See more about 'Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother' Description First edition Aperture photogravure of Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother 1936 iconic image. This talks about the second photogravure edition only. Migrant Mother, a timeless image of hardship and courage and Dorothea Lange's most iconic image, was made under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) initiative during America's Great Depression. While walking through a pea picker’s camp on the way home from an FSA field trip; Lange noticed this thirty-two year old woman with her seven children. There was no work and they were living on wild birds caught by the children. She could not move on, she told Lange, because she had sold the tires from her car for food. The second photogravure edition of Migrant Mother, printed by Aperture in conjunction with the Dorothea Lange Collection of the Oakland Museum, California, is an excellent addition to any collector's portfolio. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, Dorothea Lange studied photography under such great artists as Arnold Genthe and Clarence White. After operating a portrait studio in San Francisco for twelve years, Lange was commissioned by the California State Emergency Relief Administration to photograph migrant agricultural workers. From 1935 to 1942 she photographed for Roy Stryker's Farm Security Administration (FSA). It was during this time that she photographed such powerful well-known images as Migrant Mother. In the fifties, Lange photographed for Life magazine, collaborating with Ansel Adams on an essay and exhibition about the Mormons in Utah in 1953 and with Pirkle Jones in 1956 on the "Death of a Valley" project. Although Life did not run the story, Lange and Jones put together an exhibition and publication (Aperture, 1960), which met with both popular and critical success. From her documentation of California's migratory workers who fled dust and drought in the Great Plains and Southwest to seek a new life in the West to her telling images of the desperate condition of the sharecroppers of the South, she sought to portray the social turmoil and injustice caused by the economic upheaval of the time. Lange died in California in 1965. Place a Bid!