DB 6 Documenting the great depression

The photograph is the most effective way to show and express issues, feelings and even history. FSA, Farm Security Administration, was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty. FSA emphasized rural rehabilitation efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecropper, tenants, and very poor landowning famers. They had a program called “photograph program”. Here are some photos.

Look at photographs. You can see or feel it how they strruggled to live during the Depression to combat American rural poverty. In addition, black and white photo shows more emotion.

Migrant Mother photograph was the most powerful images of the deression era. Migrant Mother reflects the victims who suffered the most in the United States during the 1930s. Here are some Migrant Mother photographs.

Look at the her face. there is no smile as well as happiness. she just looked at somewhere and fed a baby. In the photo, you can see a mother with her baby. The mother closed her eye which looks like her heart is heavy with sorrow because of poverty and hungriness. So Migrant Mother photograph influence indirectly on socity through the photograph.

Cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Owens_Thompson