A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived. Above: Left: Migrant Mother outtake, 1936. [Dorothea Lange, U.S. Farm Security Administration via Library of Congress]. Right: Dorothea Lange’s notes on visiting the Nipomo Pea Picking Camp: “The peas represent a crop valued at 1-1/2 million dollars and are shipped to all parts of the country,” 1936.