And How Does the Subject Feel?

Well, it seems the current economy has had people looking back to the WPA photographers....

Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed'

Lange was traveling through Nipomo, California, taking photographs of migrant farm workers for the Resettlement Administration. At the time, Thompson had seven children who worked with her in the fields.

"She asked my mother if she could take her picture -- that ... her name would never be published, but it was to help the people in the plight that we were all in, the hard times," McIntosh says.

"So mother let her take the picture, because she thought it would help."