
On Looking, Again: Notes On An Image is a short essay film that considers Dorothea Lange’s photograph Migrant Mother(1936). The film examines what the photograph shows and how it asks to be seen, moving from an early trust in the image, through an awareness of how it was made and used, to a more uncertain place where neither belief nor critique quite holds. The film ends by asking what it means to keep looking, rather than what the image means.