Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Migrant Mother
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:36:48 -0500

Nathan, I remember an article in "American Photographer" many years ago that
caught up with her.  They showed a later picture of her.  Apparently she
made out all right but lived a rather hard life.  I think the article was in
the late'70s.

Mike Durling
KD4KWB
http://www.widomaker.com/~durling/

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
To: "Leica Users Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 6:04 PM
Subject: [Leica] Migrant Mother


> 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
>
> --
> Nathan Wajsman
> Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland
> e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch
> General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator
> Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman
>
>
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