Dorothea Lange

I searched for more of Dorothea Lange's photos of the Great Depression, and they were all indeed depressing. Not a single person on her photos seemed happy. Even the photo of nobody but just an empty road, called The Road West looked sad. It's amazing how one could feel the common atmosphere during the period by looking at just a few of her photos. Maybe it's the black and white colors. Maybe anybody could have taken photos of the everyday life of the time and they would still show the same thing.

By the way, the subject of the famous Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson, was actually 32 years old at the time the photo was taken, which is still pretty younger than how she looks in the photo.