RE: [Leica] Migrant Mother sighted--and P.O.'d

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

Of course, I wonder how much Dorothea Lange directly made from it? It was
shot for the FSA (or something similar?) and was owned by them, and was
probably, public domain as Govt. work. Hence all the FSA images in the
Library of Congress.

Anyone know any more about this?

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mike
> Johnston
> Sent: February 27, 2000 4:56 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Migrant Mother sighted--and P.O.'d
>
>
> >>>This weekend I was back in Belgium and saw the exhibition of the FSA
> photographs at the photography museum in Charleroi. This is a great body
>
> of work. Afterwards, my wife asked me if I knew the further fate of the
> migrant mother in Dorothea Lange's celebrated portrait. Is anything
> known about her whereabouts in the years following the picture?<<<
>
>
> Nathan,
> As of the early '80s she was living in relative prosperity in
> California--she was pictured (wearing a pair of zircon-encrusted
> hornrims) in one of the photo magazines surrounded by some of her
> offpring--but she was reportedly mightily pissed off that she had never
> received any reimbursement for the remarkable worldwide dissemination of
> her picture. The phrase quoted was "not one thin dime," if memory
> serves.
>
> --Mike
>
> P.S. It is believed that "Migrant Mother" is the most widely recognized
> photograph ever taken. You can still buy a print of it from the L. of C.
> for a pittance, although it will be printed from a very good copy
> negative. The original negative is quite fragile and is stored in a
> temperature- and humidity-controlled vault.
>
>