Migrant Mother With Color

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    Added color and touchup in photoshop.
    32 year old (Florence Thompson) with 3
    of her 7 children during the the great depression as pea pickers in California.

    photo.mom2001@yahoo.com, Slow Little Photo, gagin, knickbox, and 3 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    1. dublin molly 19 months ago | reply

      Thank you so much for making this work available with an attribution creative commons license. It is so moving I have used both the black and white version and this version with color touch-up, to illustrate a post in my blog www.IrishAmericanMom.com. Here is the link for the post where it is displayed with photo credit: www.irishamericanmom.com/2011/11/03/immigrant-or-migrant-...
      Thanks again for sharing this incredible picture.

    2. Infonomx.com (www.infonomx.com) 17 months ago | reply

      Don, thanks for releasing this photo. I cleaned it up a bit (Mother's cheek, for example), highlighted the hair of all more and framed it but, actually, I could not improve very much, which is a credit to your craft. You can see it here:

    3. damienjamar 17 months ago | reply

      maybe would it be "correct" to write somewhere that this picture was took by Mrs Dorothea Lange .....

    4. damienjamar 17 months ago | reply

      ...OOPS.... taken, not took...

    5. DaPi ♫ pro 3 months ago | reply

      It's totally unacceptable to post such a work without credit to the original photographer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange

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