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For Professor Lawrence Levine of the University of California at Berkeley, the subjects in the FSA photos are the perfect victims. He goes so far as to say that rather than a portrait of the Great Depression, the images produced by Roy Strykers team are mere caricatures of an era. Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatters camp Yesm were getting along just finemar Dorothea Lang. Oklahoma grandmother in Southern California squatters camp. Yesm were getting along just fine. March  Only Russell Lee focused on everyday life where, despite the crisis, people lived, laughed, talked The rest of the FSA photographers, largely due to specific and explicit assignments from Stryker, focused on human adversity and suffering.  

The Migrant Mother, a stereotypical image of the Great Depression, is quite the e-commerce photo editing opposite it was the synthesis of everything that Roy Stryker did not want to portray. Everyone found Florence Owens Thompson to be the paradigm of the mother of the typical peasant family of European descent who migrated to California because of the Dust Bowl. But neither was Florence of European origin as we have already said, since she was of the Cherokee race and born on a reservation, nor was she fleeing the dust storms.  dorothealangeTulare County. Farm Security Administration FSA camp for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Mother and child, come to California from Oklahoma.



Farm Security Administration FSA camp for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Mother and child, come to California from Oklahoma. May  Paradoxically, Stryker himself explicitly requested particularly Arthur Rothstein not to photograph Native Americans You know I dont love Indians. I know its your country and we took it from you, but to hell with that!  So The Migrant Mother, which Stryker himself considered the quintessence of his work, was in direct contravention of what he was asking for. We find ourselves before a symbol, but not of an AngloSaxon woman and not even of the Great Depression it is the very portrait of irony.  Thus, Thompson was not the iconic American mother that was portrayed.