How does the photograph enhance the information in the passage?
Dorothea Lange's photograph of a migrant motherDorothea Lange believed it was important to record what her subjects said. She noted their exact words whenever she could, and sent them with the accompanying photographs to the government.
One of Lange's best-known photographs is Migrant Mother. Lange met this woman and her children on a rainy day in March 1936. They were barely surviving in a tent that stood on a wet field. They were cold, hungry, and without much hope, since the crops were frozen. Lange sensed that the mother's face could tell the story of thousands of other mothers with hungry children. She took five photographs of her, each one successively closer to her face. Then she brought the photos to a San Francisco newspaper. The newspaper printed two of Lange's photos with the news that the U.S. government had decided to send 20,000 pounds of food to the 2,500 migrants at the camp. This was a great victory for Lange because her pictures had helped to prod the government into action.
