In his essay "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" Robert Coles discussed the works of two photographers, Jane Lange and Walker Evans, examining the process of producing their pictures and the artistic decisions they made, the meaning they wanted to convey and the history of their photographs.
Coles pitches on two of Lange's famous photographs. The first, the image of the "migrant mother," depicts a poor woman and her two children, dressed in rags and holding tight. The mother has a tired and apprehensive look on her once beautiful face and the children have hidden their faces behind her shoulders. But to understand better what the author of the picture wanted to say with it, Coles also views the other versions on this topic that Lange rejected.…
