Dorothea Lange Migrant Worker Question

Wes,

Did a little research and found the following:

I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. 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. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. (From: Popular Photography, Feb. 1960).

For more information check out this link: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html

John, Thanks it’s nice to see the other shots from that series. I would’ve said she was much older than 32. That really puts a perspective on things. She is the same age as I am.