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  • "Bad as it is, the world is potentially full of good photographs. But to be good, photographs have to be full of the world."
    —Dorothea Lange

    • Provenance

      Collection of Dorothea Lange
      By descent to the present owners

    • Literature

      Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, p. 178

    • Catalogue Essay

      The photographs in Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection 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.

Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

23

Shipyard Worker and Family in Trailer Camp, Richmond, California

1944
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
8 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (22.2 x 19.7 cm)
A family collection stamp on the verso.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for $7,560

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

Online Auction 3 - 13 October 2022