Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection has black-and-white photographs which are the landmark in the history of documentary photography. It shows Americans at work and at home with an emphasis on rural areas or small towns and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, Dust storms and increasing farm mechanization. Some of the most famous images portray people who were displaced from farms and migrated West or to industrial cities in search of work. Two illustrated lists of frequently requested images from the FSA-OWI Collection are "'Migrant Mother' Photographs" and "Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination".
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Why the project has significant impact on the society?
The project has significant impact on the society because it reminds us what happened during the great depression. It gave us an insight of that historic event and with that we can compare to what happened during the recession in 2007-2009. Also, we saw how people in America discriminates races. This made us more aware about racism. This also made the government establish grounds for discrimination among races.
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What was the role of Migrant Mother Photograph in the period or great depression and what is it nowadays?
Migrant Mother: BEFORE
It was a representation of poverty that was going on. People from the rural areas suffered a lot from the Great Depression as well from the Dust bowl. It was also preceded by a World War which affected middle range to poor people.
What was the role of Migrant Mother Photograph in the period or great depression and what is it nowadays?
Migrant Mother: BEFORE
It was a representation of poverty that was going on. People from the rural areas suffered a lot from the Great Depression as well from the Dust bowl. It was also preceded by a World War which affected middle range to poor people.
Migrant Mother: NOW
Its role nowadays reminds us that poverty is still happening here maybe not specifically in America but in other parts of the world especially in third-world countries.
Works Cited:
"Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview” n.d. American Memory. 16 Oct 2010 .
“Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination:
Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers” n.d. American Memory.16 Oct 2010 .
Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers” n.d. American Memory.
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