Migrant Vegetable Workers Waiting After Work to Be Paid, 1936 by Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910Ð1990) Gelatin silver print Museum Purchase The cropping of this particular photograph demonstrates how details can become the strong central focus of an image. Here, the feet of a group of migrant workers are the only thing shown, yet it is not an impersonal image. Instead, it makes a powerful statement about how workers had to wait, often in long lines, to be paid for a dayÕs laborÑand their tattered clothing shows how desperately they needed the wages.

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