1. What was Lange’s mistaken assumption to the ethnic background of Florence Thompson?
2. How might the truth of Florence’s ethnicity affected the popularity of the ‘Migrant Mother’ photograph? Do you believe the image would still have been viewed as a photo of maternal fortitude? Or as a picture that reassured the public during the Great Depression that the nuclear family –although beleaguered, was still strong?
3. What’s the moral/ethical responsibility of the photographer? Do you believe a photographer should obtain all of the facts when photographing and documenting a person/s to ensure that the subject is properly represented? Or as an artist and image making, does the photographer have a ‘creative license’, and can freely photograph the people they come in contact without learning the facts of their subjects’ biography?
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