Consider Lange's Migrant Mother. Identify the decade in which this photograph was made. Define and discuss the purposes of photojournalism, using the work of this photographer as an example of the process by which a photojournalist works to document not just a single image but a historical epoch

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In the 1930s Lange traveled for the FSA taking pictures and devoted her attention to the migrants uprooted from their farms due to the Depression and drought. Her series of photographs is an example of photojournalism, through which she creates a body of work, recording and chronicling an event and its subsequent effects. Her best known image, Migrant Mother, humanized the plight of migrants and touched the hearts of the world.

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Toward the end of the medieval period arose a strong tradition of secular plays. Those staged by towns were most often

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Rembrandt’s painting The Night Watch was commissioned by ________.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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