Dorothea Lange

mounted, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, the photographer's 'Dorothea Lange, 1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, 8, California' studio label and a 'Photography Collection of the Polaroid Corporation' label, with typed credit, title, and process and accession information in ink, on the reverse, 1936, printed no later than 1958

Acquired from the photographer in June 1958 for the Library Collection

Other prints of this image:

John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 25

Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 61

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 77

Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 1

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 45

Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 (The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 148

Dorothea Lange: The Human Face (Aosta, 1998), p. 99

Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 133

Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), pl. 481 

Weston Naef, Photographers of Genius at the Getty (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), pl. 101

This print, on double-weight paper with a slight surface sheen, is in generally very good to excellent condition. It is mounted on slick cream-colored heavy card. The right edge is slightly rubbed, with a tiny, barely-noticeable loss at the upper portion. The lower left corner is lifting slightly from the mount. In raking light the following are visible: 2 small creases that do not appear to break the emulsion in the lower right corner, and another, approximately one inch, in the lower left quadrant. These likely occurred prior to mounting. There is light soiling on the mount. Its edges are rubbed, and the corners are slightly bumped. The Polaroid Photography Collection Label is affixed across the top on the reverse. It exhibits a soft diagonal crease.
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