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

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  • Provenance

    Collection of Dorothea Lange
    By descent to the present owners

  • Catalogue Essay

    ‘In an old Ford she drives to a place most likely to yield subjects consistent with her general sympathies. Unlike the newspaper reporter, she has no news or editorial policies to direct her movements; it is only her deeply personal sympathies for the unfortunates, the downtrodden, the misfits, among her contemporaries that provide the impetus for her expedition. She may park her car at the waterfront during a strike, perhaps at a meeting of unemployed, by sleepers in the city square, at transient shelters, – breadlines, parades, or demonstrations. Here she waits with her camera open and unconcealed, her mind ready.’ – Willard Van Dyke, ‘The Photographs of Dorothea Lange—A Critical Analysis,’ Camera Craft, October 1934

    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

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Labor Rally ('Food Not Battleships')

1934
Gelatin silver print, printed 1950s or earlier.
9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (24.1 x 18.1 cm)
'1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California, Telephone Landscape 4-3880’ credit stamp, a family collection stamp on the verso, and exposure notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $8,190

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

Online Auction 3 - 13 October 2022