Based on extensive archival research, this talk will revisit the great photographic career of Dorothea Lange by offering a new perspective on the making of
Migrant Mother
, her most famous Depression-era image, and its changing reception over the last eight decades.
Sally Stein is professor emerita of art history & film and media studies at University of California, Irvine, and the author of "Peculiar Grace: Dorothea Lange and the Testimony of the Body;" an essay published in
Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life.