MIGRANT MOTHER MIGRANT GENDER

Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange's iconic portrait of motherhood and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange's long-forgotten Padonna images and proposes that Migrant Mother should indeed be seen as a disruptive image of women's conflicted relationship to home and the world. Stein is an American scholar and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated issues she most frequently addresses concern the multiple effects of documentary images, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black-and-white...[Leer más]