My reading - I know something about this photograph. It is one of a series of photographs created by a small team of photographers commissioned by the Agriculture agency in the USA to capture the plight of migrants leaving the Dust Bowl states for a new life in California. Lange produced a number of images of this family but it is this one that has become iconic. It has become emblematic of the condition of migrants worldwide. Close cropping of the image and the turned faces of her children clearly focussed attention on the careworn face of the mother facing an uncertain future.
Val Williams - a child either side has a powerful symmetry - a Madonna flanked by Cherubs bedraggled by poverty (too MUCH!)
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