Transcript Migrant Mother

American Art
Painting and photography in the
19th & 20th century
Stage DNL 22 février 2010
Walker Evans, General Store, Moundville, Alabama, 1936 (Library of Congress)
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
The Artist in His Museum, 1822
William Harnett, The Faithful Colt, 1890
Trompe l’œil, again
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The Staircase Group
In context
Anonymous, Maryland Family, ca 1820
Edward Hicks (1780-1849), The Cornell Farm, 1848
Anonymous, He That Tilleth His Land Shall Be Satisfied, ca1850
The functions and usage of photographs
Functions and usage of photographs
(le navigateur va s’ouvrir)
Ralph Earl (1751-1801), Oliver and Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth, 1792
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), The Biglen Brothers turning the stake, 1873
Claude Monet, Impression au soleil levant, 1872 (musée Marmottan)
Chronophotographs (1890), Etienne-Jules Marey / Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
Frederick Remington (1861-1909), Turn Him Loose, Bill, 1892
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Nu descendant un escalier,
1912
(Impression produced by a passing firetruck)
Charles Demuth (1883-1941)
The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928
Church building, Massillon, Ohio, 1888
(balloon frame)
Captain Kahn’s Great Manta Ray, Rutherford, NJ, 1933 (postcard)
The point of view / the frame
Dorothea Lange, Pueblo Kiva, nd
The point of view / the frame
Beer cans
Dorothea Lange, Pueblo Kiva, nd
The point of view / the frame
Dorothea Lange, Pueblo Kiva, nd
Original caption
by D. Lange
Dorothea Lange, Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32, 1936
Common title
given for publication
Migrant
Mother
Dorothea
Lange,
Destitute
pea pickers
in California.
Mother
of seven
children.
32, 1936
Dorothea
Lange,
Destitute
pea pickers
in California.
Mother
of seven
children.
Age Age
32, 1936
Original print in the Library of Congress
Dorothea Lange’s thumb
Later blotted out on
the final print
Original print in the Library of Congress
Other shots made by Dorothea Lange, source Library of Congress
Migrant mother & her children 43 years later (same arrangement as on 1936 picture
Florence Thompson and her daughters Norma Rydlewski (in front), Katherine McIntosh, and Ruby Sprague, at Norma’s House, Modesto, CA, June 1979
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