As France marks 200 years since inventor Nicéphore Niépce took the world’s oldest surviving photograph, RFI looks back at photos that changed our view of history – or even history itself. Here we tell the story of how a portrait of an unnamed woman came to represent the suffering of a nation in Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, and what the iconic picture left out.
A woman and clustered to her, three children. Hers is the only face you see fully. She gazes not at you but beyond, to the side, absorbed in private concern.
