The artwork, titled “A Family in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, are Forced to Leave Their Home During the Great Depression, June 1938,” was created by Dorothea Lange in 1938. It falls under the Social Realism art movement and belongs to the genre of photography.
In the artwork, a family is depicted walking along a deserted road, presumably having been displaced due to the economic hardships of the Great Depression. The photograph captures the somber and exhaustive expressions of the family members. The father, dressed in a hat and carrying several belongings in a cart, leads the way. The children follow behind, reflecting the dire circumstances they are enduring. The barren landscape and the empty road ahead accentuate the family’s uncertainty and struggle, embodying the social and economic challenges of the era.
