Who was the Woman in the Famous Great Depression Photograph?

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[elleng]

1. Photographer Dorothea Lange

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/

[TBA]

2. From Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Owens_Thompson

[madaboutharry]

3. I feel sad she wasn't treated with respect.

She was right to feel hurt by the photographs

[Warpy]

4. Well, Lange lied about not publishing them

because she didn't have the last say. Still, it's an amazing photograph, one to be proud of since it woke up a lot of people to the human cost of the Dust Bowl and the loss of so many family farms.

The ironic part is that she and her children were some of the few in that desperate place to have something to eat. Most of the others didn't and the work they'd counted on wasn't there because of a freak storm. The despair came from turning starving children away so her own children could eat.