Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photograph. Then in , a woman named Florence Owens Thompson wrote a letter to the editor of the Modesto Bee newspaper. Born in Oklahoma, Thompson was actually a full-blooded Native American; both her parents were Cherokee.
In the mids, she and her first husband, Cleo Owens, moved to California, where they found mill and farm work. Cleo died of tuberculosis in , and Florence was left to support six children by picking cotton and other crops. When Bill Ganzel, a photographer for Nebraska Public Television, interviewed and photographed Thompson in , she told him that while a young mother, she typically picked around pounds of cotton a day, leaving home before daylight and coming home after dark.
When Lange found her in Nipomo that day in March , she had two more children, and was living with a man named Jim Hill, the father of her infant daughter Norma.
One of them, Troy Owens, flatly denied that his mother had sold their tires to buy food, as Lange had claimed. Florence Owens Thompson pictured with her children in Nipomo, California, The family kept moving after Nipomo, following farm work from one place to another, and Florence would have three more children.
Her mother later became a social worker. After graduating from high school, Dorothea Lange began to study to become a teacher, enrolling in a teacher training program. She decided instead to become a photographer, dropped out of school, and studied by working with Arnold Genthe and then Charles H.
She later took a photography class at Columbia with Clarence H. Dorothea Lange and a friend, Florence Bates, traveled around the world supporting themselves with photography. Lange settled in San Francisco because they were robbed there in and she needed to take a job. She began her own portrait studio in San Francisco by , which soon became popular with civic leaders and the wealthy of the city. The next year she married an artist, Maynard Dixon. She continued her photography studio, but also spent time promoting her husband's career and caring for the couple's two sons.
The Depression ended her photography business. In she sent her sons to boarding school and lived separately from her husband, giving up their home while they each lived in their respective studios. She began photographing the effects of the Depression on people. Her "White Angel Breadline" is one of the most famous of her photographs from this period. Lange's photographs were also used to illustrate the sociology and economics work for University of California's Paul S.
He used her work to back up grant requests for food and camps for the many Depression and Dust Bowl refugees coming to California. In , Lange divorced Maynard Dixon and married Taylor.
In , as part of the work of this agency, Lange took the photograph known as "Migrant Mother. From to , Dorothea Lange was a photographer for the War Location Authority, where she took photographs of interned Japanese Americans.
These photos were not published until ; another of them were released by the National Archives in after a year embargo. She returned to the Office of War Information from to , and her work there was sometimes published without credit. Our dog unfortunately died…. She actually married him twice; the first time in a civil ceremony, and then in a Jewish to which she had converted ceremony two days later Biography. This marriage, too, only lasted four short years.
Just three short months before her death, Marilyn gave her now-famous performance at John F. This was to be her last famous public performance. On the morning of August 5, , Marilyn was found dead in her Los Angeles home, with an empty bottle of sleeping pills beside her bed Marilyn Monroe. Kim went on living her life and working. This lasted a while up until my sixth grade year.
On a spring day in Mrs. Kim started limping. I was about 12 years old and on this day and I could tell she was in pain. At this point in my life I was old enough to understand that she had cancer before and how bad of a thing cancer really was. Then, the whole family moved to Baltimore, Maryland for them to get a chance for a better life. When Henrietta was thirty, she felt a "knot" in her lower torso. She went for a check up and discovered that she had cervical cancer.
About a year later, after a lot of pain and suffering, Henrietta died on October 4,…. She died when she was thirty-one years old. From there she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Unknowingly to Henrietta and her family, her cells would make history. A portion of one of her lungs was removed that summer. Cancer struck again in
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