Lange’s extensive typed caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'The face and the environment of a Mexican-American. He works in the fields of Southern Arizona.’ This photograph is one of a sequence of five images on this subject, and Lange’s hand-drawn diagram on the reverse indicates that the image offered here is first in the sequence.
The photographs in Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two 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.