The photograph referenced is the famous Depression-Era photo by Dorothea Lange featuring a migrant mother and her two children. The goal of the photo was taken to show the hopelessness, hunger, and poverty that plagued Americans during the Great Depression.
<h3>Who is Dorothea Lange?</h3>
Dorothea Lange was a photojournalist and documentary photographer from America.
Being a woman herself, it was easy for her to humanize the effects of the Great Depression using this famous photograph.
The photograph which later became known as "Migrant Mother" was released in March 1936, and it made Dorothea famous.
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