This photograph shows Paul Schuster Taylor, Lange’s husband and collaborator, at work interviewing farm laborers in Alabama. Taylor (1895-1984) was an agricultural economist and his socially progressive politics led him to a variety of positions in state and federal agencies focused on helping the rural poor. A self-taught photographer, Taylor used the camera in his work to provide documents that buttressed his field notes. He first encountered Lange’s photographs at Willard Van Dyke’s exhibition of her work at his Oakland Gallery in 1934. Impressed, Taylor asked to use her images in an article he was writing for Survey Graphic magazine entitled San Francisco and the General Strike. He hired Lange to photograph the Unemployed Exchange Association, and in 1935 Lange joined Taylor on the staff of the California State Emergency Relief Administration, Division for Rural Rehabilitation, where they developed a close working relationship in which their respective skills complemented each other. They married in 1935. In 1939 they coauthored the seminal pictorial study of the Depression, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. They continued working together, formally and informally, for the rest of Lange’s life.

Their marriage brought together their two families: Lange’s sons John and Daniel, and Taylor’s three children. As the couple aged, their home became a meeting place for their children and grandchildren. Lange’s grandchildren recall that after Lange’s death, Taylor remained a devoted and supportive grandfather.

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’s grandchildren, Lisa Perrin, Andrew Dixon, and Gregor Dixon, discuss Lange’s working relationship with her husband Paul Schuster Taylor.

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- Provenance
  Collection of Dorothea Lange
  By descent to the present owners

Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

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Dorothea Lange

Paul Taylor with Farm Workers, Alabama

1936
Gelatin silver print.
7 1/4 x 8 in. (18.4 x 20.3 cm)
A family collection stamp on the verso.

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Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000

Sold for $3,780

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

Online Auction 3 - 13 October 2022

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Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California (Olson for governor)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $8,820
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Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper's Wife (resident, Conway, Arkansas)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $8,190
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Dorothea Lange
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $25,200
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Dorothea Lange
Green County, Georgia (woman on porch)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $10,080
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Dorothea Lange
Free Speech
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
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Dorothea Lange
Street Demonstration, San Francisco
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $15,120
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Dorothea Lange
Labor Rally ('Food Not Battleships')
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $8,190
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Dorothea Lange
San Francisco ('We Demand Cash Relief')
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $9,450
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Paul Taylor with Farm Workers, Alabama
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,780
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Dorothea Lange
Lettuce Cutters, Salinas, Valley, California
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Dorothea Lange
N. J. Laney, Horses, Vehickles, Mules, Farm Implements
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Man in Hat on Street, Oklahoma
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,300
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Dorothea Lange
San Francisco (man lying on grass)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
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Dorothea Lange
The Yanks are Not Coming, Modesto, California
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,040
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Dorothea Lange
Ma Burnham, Conway, Arkansas
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,300
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Dorothea Lange
Man on Porch Reading Paper
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $10,080
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Dorothea Lange
Queenie, North Carolina
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $16,380
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Dorothea Lange
Migratory Cotton Pickers, Eloy, Arizona
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $8,820
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Dorothea Lange
Toilet at Bakersfield 'Dump'
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Dorothea Lange
Selected Images of Newsstands and Headlines
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,820
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Dorothea Lange
Berkeley, California ('Sorry, Today's Gasoline Allotment Sold')
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,560
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Dorothea Lange
Club San Pablo
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
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Dorothea Lange
Shipyard Worker and Family in Trailer Camp, Richmond, California
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,560
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Dorothea Lange
Trailer Near Richmond Shipyards
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
On the Great Plains, Three Churches of Three Denominations, Near Winner, South Dakota
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,300
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Dorothea Lange
Clouds, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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Dorothea Lange
Summer Pleasure, Gunlock, Utah
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
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Dorothea Lange
Wooden Fence, Toquerville, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Before Church, Gunlock, Utah (Mary Ellen Hunt), from Three Mormon Towns
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,780
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Dorothea Lange
First Born, Berkeley, California
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,300
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Dorothea Lange
Rebecca Dixon Chambers, Sausalito, California
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Dorothea Lange
Selected Images from The Public Defender
Estimate $18,000 - 22,000
Sold for $22,680
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Dorothea Lange
Studebaker
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,040
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Dorothea Lange
Man Sleeping on Bench
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Drunk Drivers Go To Jail
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Pickets on Market Street, Western Union Telegrapher Strike
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Dorothea Lange
Market Street, Consumer Relations, San Francisco
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
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Dorothea Lange
Springtime in Berkeley, California (gardener)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,040
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Dorothea Lange
Spring in New York City
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
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Dorothea Lange
Couple Walking, New York City
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Dorothea Lange
New York City (man in raincoat)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
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Dorothea Lange
Shipyard Worker, New York City
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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Dorothea Lange
Child Sleeping in Stroller
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Café Near Pinole, California
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $7,560
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Dorothea Lange
Portrait of a Girl, County Clare, Ireland
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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Dorothea Lange
Procession Bearing Food for the Dead, Egypt
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,780
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Dorothea Lange
Pathan Warrior Tribesman, Khyber Pass
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Field Workers, Korea
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,040
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Dorothea Lange
Mother and Child, India
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange
Venezuela (man holding hat)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

Online Auction 3 - 13 October 2022

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Paul Taylor with Farm Workers, Alabama

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