On The Invention Of Photographic Meaning
A mother to seven kids in total, Thompson’s face is etched with lines of worry as she gazes towards an uncertain future. From the moment it was published in a San Francisco newspaper in 1936, the image came to encapsulate the dire poverty endured by a lot of migrant Americans. Through the Good Depression, numerous struggled to operate on unproductive land following the devastation of the Dust Bowl. Prince’s photography kit is rather spartan, shooting mostly with a Mamiya 7, an Olympus XA, and sometimes instant film with a Polaroid SLR 680. I never thoughts that, but it’s distinctive, it...