Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780756543976 (0756543975)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Series: Captured History
bookshelves: spring-2012, play-dramatisation, fradio, radio-3, published-2011, history, art-forms, north-americas, period-piece, kiddlewinks Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura Read on March 22, 2012 Lange wrote of the meeting:"I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her ag...
Image from wiki.Lange wrote of the meeting:"I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food."Liste...
Telling the story behind an iconic photograph and discussing its historical importance is a cool idea, and this book is successfully concise and informative doing that. The suggestions for further reading and list of suggested web sites are disappointingly skimpy.
It's a well known fact that if you want to pull on heartstrings, you focus on the single person, not the wide picture.This book shows how doing the former can really change lives. The picture "Migrant Mother" has not only been one of the images that define the Great Depression, it also moved public ...
I've always been curious about the Great Depression that took place in America primarily during the 1930's. This book examines the story behind the most famous photograph of the Great Depression. I happily began this book this week. I was somewhat disappointed. The book wavered between being a book ...
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