March 2016 is the 80th Anniversary of the San Fransisco News publishing of Dorothea Lange's famed Migrant Mother portrait, created in Nipomo, CA in 1936.
The LA Times has shared first hand accounts of the day the iconic portrait was created. Nearing on the end of her assignment for the Farm Security Administration, Lange was traveling to Berkley, passing through Nipomo just south of San Luis Obispo, when she spotted a pea-picker camp, home of Florence Owens Thompson. She continued to drive, until she changed her course of travel. In her own words:
Two of Lange's portraits were published in the San Francisco News on March 10, 1936 causing a snowballing influence on national headlines and exposure of Dorothea Lange's portrait across America. Today, Migrant Mother is the most iconic and recognizable image of The Great Depression of the 1930's.
Read the article on LA Times Framework website accompanied by a photo gallery of 5 images of Florence Thomas taken by Dorothea Lange.