Photo Icons

I picked up a book in the library called 'Photo Icons' - I came across the extremely famous photo 'Migrant Mother' by Dorothea Lange.

The image is iconic in many many different ways. The image basically sums up stock market crash, economic crisis, and catastrophic drought in the southern states: with good reason the decade following 1929 came to be known in the USA as 'the bitter years'. This is when the photograph became very famous, taken by Dorothea Lange portraying a migrant worker and her children, thereby creating an image that has established itself as a timeless metaphor for human suffering.