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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.
1954 Gelatin silver print, probably printed later. 9 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (23.2 x 21 cm) A family collection stamp and annotated '4R21 Ireland,' possibly by the photographer, in ink on the verso.