Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender: A Conversation with Dr. Sally Stein

Hear from world-renowned Dorothea Lange expert Dr. Sally Stein, who delivered her lecture "Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender" at Gilcrease on October 13, 2019. In her talk, Stein offered a new perspective on her most famous Depression-era image, Migrant Mother, and its changing reception over the last eight decades. Dorothea Lange's America is on view at Gilcrease from Sept. 13, 2019 - Jan. 5, 2020. Learn more: gilcrease.org/....
About Dr. Stein
Dr. Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20th-century photography and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers-particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano-as well as the contested image of FDR. She has also written numerous essays about popular mass media - Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look - along with continuing her study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.