Migrant women
For this page, I choose glitching. The reason I chose this skill is that it allows you to look at an image in a way you never thought you could. This is a photo of a migrant woman breastfeeding her baby after a dust bowl has occurred. Migrant women are one of the various perspectives that I am exploring throughout this project. I had glitched this image several times and this was the best outcome I received. It blocked out her entire body and really made a point to focus on her face. You are able to see the desperation in her face. There is no sign of hope in this photo. Many of the women during this time experienced sever desperation when they had to migrate out to California so their husbands could farm. I was able to draw that women were often left at home trying to fend for their children; many of them were jobless. I included a second photo, that is not glitched, just to provide another example of how women needed to work back then to support their family. We can conclude that this perspective was prior to women starting to become involved in the economy.
Lange, Dorothea. 1936 March. "Migrant agricultural workers family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California." Still image 1936. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017762907/
Rosener, Ann. 1942 Sept. "Women in war. Agricultural workers." Still image 1942. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017693697/
