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  •  ". . . the camera does not easily capture the image of a secret, though when it does we are, as always, warmed with the honor of being told."
    —Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion (1939)
    • Provenance

      Collection of Dorothea Lange
      By descent to the present owners

    • Literature

      Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, p. 151
      Dorothea Lange and Beaumont Newhall, Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman, cover and p. 67
      Robert Coles and and Therese Heyman, Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, p. 101
      Therese Heyman, John Szarkowski, and Sandra Phillips, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, pl. 73
      Keith Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, p. 71
      Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, p. 147
      Elizabeth Partridge, Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life, p. 77
      Naomi Rosenblum, Sally Stein, et al., Dorothea Lange: The Human Face, p. 75

    • Catalogue Essay

      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

15

Ma Burnham, Conway, Arkansas

1938
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
9 3/8 x 7 5/8 in. (23.8 x 19.4 cm)
A family collection stamp on the verso.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $6,300

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

Online Auction 3 - 13 October 2022