Dorothea Lange - Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two - Online Auction New York Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Phillips
  • This photograph is from the series of images Lange made alongside Ansel Adams in Utah for a joint picture essay published in LIFE magazine in the fall of 1954. Entitled ‘Three Mormon Towns,’ the featured paired the photographs with text by Lange's son, Daniel Dixon. Adams and Lange pursued the project in their own characteristic styles, Adams focusing on the land and Lange on people, in and around the three towns they photographed: Gunlock, Toquerville, and St. George.

     

    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.

    • Provenance

      Collection of Dorothea Lange
      By descent to the present owners

    • Literature

      Judith Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, p. 67, pl. 32 (variant cropping)

Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two

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Two Women Arm in Arm, Toquerville, Utah, from Three Mormon Towns

1953
Gelatin silver print.
9 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. (24.8 x 21.9 cm)
'1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California, Telephone Landscape 4-3880’ credit stamp, a family collection stamp, and exposure notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

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$3,000 - 5,000 

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two - Online Auction

29 March - 5 April 2023