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Margaret's Photographs Were Portrayed In The Photograph, Migrant Mother

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The photograph Migrant Mother was optimistic but at the same time depicted the sadness and deprivation going on in the United States. Iversen Margaret stated that photographs that characterize, but also generalize include the texture of our experiences of the world, punctuated as it is with holes leading don to the unconscious (Iversen, 2004, p 55-57). The reason why her photographs were depicted in that manner were because it is what she saw in her world. She wanted to call attention to the subjects that represented what she felt. She wanted to call attention to them as worthier that the conditions they were in while calling for Americans to the incompleteness of American Democracy. How democracy had failed them and need to answer to the

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