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This photograph is reproduced in the first chapter of An American Exodus, the seminal pictorial study of the Depression’s impact by Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor. Entitled Old South, this chapter focuses on the plight of poor tenant farmers who worked land that was steadily becoming depleted. The dusty quality of the soil visible in this picture, and the scant and uneven crops, provide an eloquent encapsulation of this situation. In the book, this image is paired with a quote from sociologist Rupert B. Vance: ‘The South is poor, the land is poor, the only crop is cotton, the houses are without paint, weeds crowd up to the door, the tenants are ill-clad.’
Page spread from Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, pp. 12-13 Paul Taylor summed up the situation in is text for the chapter: ‘The rural problems of the lower strata in the South are deeply rooted in the past. They have developed in the society created by cotton. They focus largely on masses of poor propertyless workers, white and black, using simple methods of production in the fields, with little opportunity to rise.’
The photographs in Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two were in the photographer’s collection at the time of her death and thenceforth passed to her descendants. The images represent the entirety of Lange’s career as one of the foremost documentary photographers of the 20th century, from work made before her engagement with the Resettlement Administration, later the Farm Security Administration, in the 1930s, to the travel photography that absorbed her in her final years, as well as more personal images of her family. Each print bears a Family Collection stamp on the reverse.
Provenance
Collection of Dorothea Lange
By descent to the present ownersLiterature
Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, p. 13 (variant cropping)
Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two
2
Alabama
1937
Gelatin silver print, probably printed 1950s.
9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (24.4 x 19.4 cm)
A family collection stamp on the verso.
Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,080
Christopher Mahoney
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Vanessa Hallett
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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two - Online Auction
29 March - 5 April 2023
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Dorothea Lange
Migratory Cotton Pickers, Eloy, Arizona
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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Dorothea Lange
Alabama
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Paul S. Taylor with Farmer
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Hand of a Young Daughter, Transplanting Sweet Potatoes, Tenant Farmers, Near Chatham, North Carolina
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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Street Demonstration, San Francisco (Down with Sales Tax)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $40,640
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Police Officer on Horseback
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Demonstration San Francisco (Man Holding Flag)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $8,255
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Hill Woman, Missouri Ozarks
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Greenville, Mississippi
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Killing Time, American South
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Migrant Worker at Rest
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Queenie, North Carolina
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
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Portrait of a Young Man in Open Denim Shirt
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Corn, 1 Cent
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Job Seekers, San Francisco
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Woman with Paper Bag
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Woman in Polka-Dot Dress
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Buy War Bonds (Lincoln)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,556
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Soldiers Killed in Action
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Serving Our Country
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Townsend
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Women Workers, Richmond Shipyard
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,620
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Night Worker’s Sign, Richmond, California
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Woman in Trailor Camp, Richmond, California
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
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South Dakota Church
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Horses in Stable, from Three Mormon Towns
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Two Women Arm in Arm, Toquerville, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Mrs. Neagle on Porch, Toquerville, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Mrs. Beatty, Toquerville, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns
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Jack Jones, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Couple Seated on Porch, Gunlock, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns
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Oak Tree, Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Helen and Gregor
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Second Born, Berkeley
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
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Grandchild with Flag, Steep Ravine
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Two Men Talking on the Street (Oakland or Richmond, California)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Dorothea Lange
Man Stepping on Curb, from Ballet
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Park Bench with Mother and Pram, New York City
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Two Men and a Woman on a Street Car
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Parents with Young Son
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Campaign Sign for Senator Thomas Henry Kuchel
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Road Sign, Divided Highway Ahead
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $2,540
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Stop Sign
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
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Boy against a Peat Wall, Ireland
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Boy and Two Men, Ireland
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Mother and Child, Vietnam
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Palestinian Child
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Vietnam
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Pakistani Youth, Karachi
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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