G. Steve Journal

Reflections on photography, art, beauty and the natural landscape.

Things As They Are

Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange chronicled the era for the Farm Security Administration and created one of the iconic images of that time, "Migrant Mother."

In a recent virtual presentation, MoMA curator Sarah Meister reveals that Lange displayed in her studio, the following quote from Francis Bacon:

 

                                                             The contemplation of things as they are
                                                              without substitution or imposture
                                                              without error or confusion
                                                              is in itself a nobler thing
                                                              than the whole harvest of invention.

[via]

Migrant Mother LOC