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Dorothea Lange, Abandoned Farm in the Dustbowl, Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas, June

Dorothea Lange

American · 1895–1965 · Photographer

Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Gelatin silver print, likely an early printMigrant Mother, Nipomo, CaliforniaPhillips · $337,500≈ £256,967≈ €300,829Sign up to see
  2. Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, 1933, Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1957White Angel BreadlinePhillips · $200,000≈ £152,277≈ €178,269Sign up to see
  3. Dorothea Lange, A Sign of the Times–Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco, 1934, Gelatin silver printA Sign of the Times–Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San FranciscoPhillips · $125,000≈ £95,173≈ €111,418Sign up to see

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Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.

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Born 1895, HobokenDied 1965, San FranciscoOccupation PhotographerWikidata Q230673 ↗ULAN 500007674 ↗Museum works 5

social realism

Also known as Dorothea Lange Taylor, Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn, Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange, Dorothea Nutzhorn, Dorothy Nutzhorn, Russell Lee

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Dorothea Lange, Abandoned Farm in the Dustbowl, Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas, June
Abandoned Farm in the Dustbowl, Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas, June1938, printed ca. 1972 · Gelatin silver print
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Phyllis D. Massar, 1972 — Open Access…
Dorothea Lange, Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February
Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February1939, printed ca. 1972 · Gelatin silver print
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Phyllis D. Massar, 1972 — Open Access…
Dorothea Lange, Cotton Pickers’ Camp, Nipomo California
Cotton Pickers’ Camp, Nipomo California1936-02
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ↗
Public domain · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — public domain
Dorothea Lange, Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February
Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California1936
Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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