THE GRAPES OF WRATH

There was a time when America starved. The first half of the 30s were marked in th USA by rags, nomadism, wind and dryness; and, paradoxically, by amazing creativeness: Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Truman Capote, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee...As Hollywood was creating and perfecting the utmost icons of glamour, they captured the despair and resignation in the southerner’s peasant’s vacant looks. As did the photographers of the NRA. The most striking of all these images is no doubt Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, but they all witnessed this terrible and odd yet fascinating part of american history.