The mother of all Depression era photos

Right A more detailed book about the photo and how it was used in past years, it also has better reproductions of the seven images Lange took. ISBN 9781633450660

A book for younger readers revealing some background to the Depression years in America and in particular Dorothea Lange's most famous photo that is frequently used as an icon for those times. The author writes about the March 1936 photos that Lange took in a Californian field with several hundred destitute vegetable pickers. She took seven photos, gradually moving closer to a woman and her three daughters who were living in a makeshift tent. The last shot turned out to be the classic. The book says Lange took six photos but I'm looking at seven that are shown in the 'Migrant Mother' book by Sarah Meister (published in 2018 by The Museum of Modern Art ISBN 9781633450660).

Though the book is for younger readers I found the production rather amateurish. Including the cover, the migrant mother photo is shown six times throughout the book's sixty-six pages. Other worthwhile photos from the Library of Congress depression era collection haven't had any treatment to make them sparkle they are bland grey reproductions (and they could all be bigger). The Meister book I mentioned has Lange's photos reproduced with full tonal qualities and printed on lovely matt art paper. Her book also gives lots of background about Lange's photo and how it was used by print media over the past decades.