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Who took the iconic "Migrant Mother" photograph of her?

  • Dorothea Lange

  • Ansel Adams

  • Annie Leibovitz

  • Richard Avedon

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Dorothea Lange, a renowned American photographer during the Great Depression, captured the iconic "Migrant Mother" photograph. Taken in 1936, it depicts a destitute pea picker, Florence Owens Thompson, with her children. Lange's poignant image, later published in a national magazine, became a powerful symbol of the economic hardships faced by rural migrant farmers during those trying times.
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