Dorothea Lange - Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two - Online Auction New York Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Phillips

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  • In the early 1950s, Lange began making photographs that fit into a set of themes she had devised for herself, such as Consumers, Relationships, City Life, and Ballet. Lange’s notations on the reverse of the print offered here indicate that this image fell jointly under the City Life and Relationships themes. In a 1952 interview with her son and writing partner Daniel Dixon, Lange said of her Relationships series: ‘In the past, events have always played a major role in the work I’ve done. First there was the depression, then the dustbowl, then the war. All of these were big, harsh powerful things, and it was in relation to them that, as a rule, I tried to photograph people. Now, however, I’m trying to get at something else. Instead of photographing men in relationship to events, as I have, I am trying to photograph men in relation to men, to discover what they mean to each other, and what they mean to themselves.’

     

    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 owners

Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two

39

Park Bench with Mother and Pram, New York City

1952
Gelatin silver print, probably printed 1950s.
7 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (18.7 x 18.1 cm)
Annotated 'City Life and Relationships' in Lange's hand in crayon, exposure notations in unidentified hands, and a family collection stamp on the verso.

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$3,000 - 5,000 

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two - Online Auction

29 March - 5 April 2023