Dorothea Lange - Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection New York Monday, October 3, 2022 | Phillips

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  • "She sees the final criticism of her work in the reaction to it of some person who might view it fifty years from now. It is her hope that such a person would see in her work a record of the people of her time, a record valid of the day and place wherein made."
    —Willard Van Dyke, ‘The Photographs of Dorothea Lange—A Critical Analysis,’ Camera Craft, October 1934

    • Provenance

      Collection of Dorothea Lange
      By descent to the present owners

    • 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

4

Green County, Georgia (woman on porch)

1937
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (19.4 x 24.8 cm)
A family collection stamp and exposure notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

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Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $10,080

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

Online Auction 3 - 13 October 2022