How do these two accounts differ?
Read the quotation by Dorothea Lange about the
photo "Migrant Mother" from Years of Dust.
I saw and approached the hungry and desperate
mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember
how I explained my presence or my camera to her,
but I do remember she asked me no questions. ... !
did not ask her name or history. She told me her age,
that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been
living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding
fields, and birds that the children had killed. She had
just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she
sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled
around her, and seemed to know that my pictures
might help her, and so she helped me. There was a
sort of equality about it.
Now, read an excerpt about the photo from Years of
Dust.
O Lange describes a situation that is more desperate
than the true circumstances that Thompson's
daughter explains.
O Thompson's daughter describes a situation that is
more desperate than the true circumstances that
Lange explains.
O Lange describes a situation that is more
lighthearted than the true circumstances that
Thompson's daughter explains.
O Thompson's daughter describes a situation that is
more lighthearted than the true circumstances that
Lange explains.