The dust bowl and these consequences, by Antoine massonié and Nicolas Mercier

Our exhibition is about the great migration and the great depression (1920 to 1930), and the artistic movement causes by these disasters and the dust storm (November, 12, 1933).

We start with a photo of the dust storm that is, with the great depression, the main causes of migration to California .This is one of the many farms destroyed by the storm .Then, we have choose a photo of a demonstration against the jobless caused by the great depression : we can see a kid who ask a job for his father .After, it is a picture of route 66 with migrants on during their travel : they use car, but if their car break they must continue by foot .But the dream of migrants are not realized in California and, on the after picture, they gather in camp where poverty and misery are present .These disasters made react artists of this time, and some of theme (like Dorothea Lange or John Steinbeck) have done works on the subject : Dorothea did a lot of photo (like “the migrant mother”) and John did a novel .”The grape of wrath”, that tells the story of a family of migrants.

In our exhibition, we search to show the harsh living conditions of citizens during the Great Depression, because this event is important in the history of America and in the history of world .We wish you a good visit.