Dorothea Lange - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
  • “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.”
    —Dorothea Lange

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    • Provenance

      Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica, 2000

    • Exhibited

      American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 30 October 2014 – 22 March 2015
      Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020
      The Bitter Years: Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, 19 October 2022 – 29 April 2023; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, 8 September 2023 – 14 January 2024

    • Literature

      Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, p. 190
      Partridge, Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange, p. 3
      NSU Art Museum, American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Fort Lauderdale, exh. cat., 2015, pl. 3
      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dorothea Lange, American Photographs, pl. 42

101

Migrant Agricultural Worker's Family, Nipomo, California

1936
Gelatin silver print, printed 1950s.
10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (26.7 x 34.3 cm)
'1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' credit stamp on the verso.

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024