Art & Culture · 2
Which Farm Security Administration photographer took the Depression-era portrait now known as 'Migrant Mother'?
Answer
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange photographed the pea-picker camp in Nipomo, California, in 1936 for the FSA, producing the image that became the defining photograph of the Great Depression.
💡 Did you know?
Dorothea Lange's most iconic Depression-era photograph was taken in under ten minutes, and she never learned the migrant woman's name.
Other options people guess
- Walker Evans
- Arthur Rothstein
- Margaret Bourke-White
Topics
- photography
- great-depression
- 20th-century
- documentary
Know your art & culture trivia?
Play a free Art & Culture quiz and see how many you get right — no signup needed to start.
More Art & Culture facts
Art & Culture
Roughly how long did Dorothea Lange spend photographing the woman who became the subject of 'Migrant Mother'?
Dorothea Lange's most iconic Depression-era photograph was taken in under ten minutes, and she never learned the migrant woman's name.
Art & Culture
Which iconic war photograph, credited to Robert Capa, is widely debated as possibly being the work of his partner Gerda Taro?
Robert Capa's most famous war photograph may have been taken by his lover Gerda Taro, but he received all the credit.
Art & Culture
Which American photographer, famous for black-and-white images of the American West, almost pursued a career as a concert pianist before turning to photography?
Ansel Adams nearly became a concert pianist before photography stole his life's work at age seventeen.
Art & Culture
Which Dutch Golden Age painter is known for masterful use of light and shadow in works like 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?
Vermeer left only about 34 to 36 confirmed paintings in his entire lifetime — remarkably few, yet they made him one of the most revered painters in history.
Art & Culture
In traditional Noh performance, tilting a mask's face downward is understood to express which emotion?
Japanese Noh theater masks are carved to appear neutral, yet tilt slightly upward or downward to show joy or sorrow without facial movement.
Art & Culture
Art historians who criticized the Sistine ceiling's cleaning believe Michelangelo applied the removed shadow layer using which technique?
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling was nearly destroyed by restorers in the 1980s who removed layers art historians now believe the master intentionally applied.