"Dorothea Lange with Camera" c. 1934

DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)

"A Photographers Journey"

(See Biography/Timeline at bottom of page)

(prices are subject to change)

Provenance: Collection & Estate of Dorothea Lange

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c. 1933 "Unemployed Worker, Man with Cap, California"*

c. 1933 "White Angel Breadline, San Francisco"
Gelatin silver ferrotype print, stamped verso.
Price on Request

c. 1933 "Portrait of Charles Duncan"
Vintage gelatin silver print, signed & dated recto mount in pencil.
$12,000

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) & Paul Taylor (1895-1984)
c. 1934 "Dorothea Lange with Camera"
Vintage toned gelatin silver print, collaborative self-portrait.
$15,000

c. 1936 "Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California"*

Additional information - The "Migrant Mother" Story

c. 1937 "Sharecropper, Hall County TX"
Gelatin silver print.
$12,000

c. 1937 "Spring Plowing, Guadalupe, California" *

c. 1938 "Death in Doorway, Grayson CA"
Gelatin silver print.
$16,000

c. 1938 "Ma Burnham, Conway Arkansas"
Gelatin silver print, notations verso.
$15,000

c. 1938 "Man, Greenville Mississippi"
Gelatin silver print, stamped verso.
$18,000

c. 1939 "Queen, North Carolina"
Rare gelatin silver print, signed & fully inscribed verso.
$18,500

c. 1939 "Queen, North Carolina" Verso with Lange's notes.

c. 1940's "Paul Taylor, Consumer Advocate"
Gelatin silver print.
$8,000

c. 1941 "Amana Society, Iowa"
Vintage toned silver print, titled verso.
$12,000

c. 1942 "Newspaper Stand, San Francisco"
 Gelatin silver print.
 $8,000 

c. 1952 "Spring in New York"
 Gelatin silver print.
 $8,500

c. 1952 "First Born"
Vintage gelatin silver print.
$12,000

c. 1952 "Woman, New York City"
 Gelatin silver print.
 $8,000

 c. 1953 "Full Moon, Southwestern Utah"
 Gelatin silver print.
 $7,000

c. 1953 "Clouds, Eminence of God, Gunlock Utah"
Vintage gelatin silver print.
$7,500

c. 1953 "Bonded Dealer, Utah, Three Mormon Towns"*

c. 1954 "Rainy Day, County Clare Ireland"
Vintage gelatin silver ferrotype print, noted verso.
$10,000

c. 1954 "Fairs & Markets, Ireland"
Vintage gelatin silver ferrotype print, titled verso.
$12,000

c. 1956 "Café near Pinole, California"
 Vintage gelatin silver print, signed verso.
 $10,000

c. 1957 "Sunlit Oaks, Berkeley"
 Vintage gelatin silver print, notations recto.
 $9,000

c. 1957 "Helen's Boy, Berkeley"
Vintage mounted gelatin silver print.
$7,500

c. 1958 "Pakistan Youth, Karachi"*

c. 1958 "Human Disaster, Middle East"
 Vintage gelatin silver print, stamped &titled verso.
 $7,500

c. 1958 "Feet with Anklets, Middle East"*

c. 1963 "Shepherd Statue, Egypt"
Vintage mounted gelatin silver print.
$8,000

c. 1964 "Spring Planting in Berkeley, Andrew & Mr. Perkins"
 Vintage gelatin silver print, titled & dated verso.
 $8,000

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Dorothea Lange Biography

(1895-1965)

“A Photographers Journey”

1895

Born May 25^th, Hoboken New Jersey to Joanna Lange & Henry Nutzhorn.

1902

Contracts polio, resulting in a malformed foot and a lifelong limp.

1907 – 1917

Father abandons family. Dorothea moves to NY with mother & brother to live with mothers family.

Attends Wadleigh High School for Girls - graduates 1914.  Decides to become a photographer and begins working in portrait studio of Arnold Genthe. Takes a photography course at Columbia University taught by Clarence White.

1918

Leaves NY with a friend, planning to travel the world and support herself as a photographer. Due to robbery, trip is aborted in San Francisco. Works as photo finisher at SF Camera Club. Establishes portrait studio at 540 Sutter St. Assumes mother’s maiden name. Meets Imogen Cunningham & husband Roi Partridge and Consuela Kanaga.

1919 – 1929

Marries artist Maynard Dixon (1920). Couple resides in San Francisco. Lange continues portrait business while Dixon concentrates on Native American imagery. First son Daniel born (1925). Second son John born (1928).

 Stock market crashes (1929).

1930 – 1939

Dixon & Lange board children & live in respective studios to save money. Begins to document the effects of the depression, maritime strikes & May Day demonstrations (1934). First exhibition at Willard Van Dyke’s studio in Oakland (1934). Divorces Dixon & marries Paul Taylor, economics professor at UC Berkeley (1935) - moves to Berkeley. Works as photographer for FSA Farm Security Administration documenting US rural communities. While on assignment in California, meets 33 year old Florence Owens, subject of 1936 “Migrant Mother”.

1940 – 1957

Ends association with FSA. Museum of Modern Art, NY exhibits work for first time (1940). Receives Guggenheim Fellowship (1941). Photographs relocation of Japanese- Americans in internment camps (1942). Photographs the founding of United Nations in San Francisco (1945). Exhibits at Museum of Modern Art, NY in 1948, 1949, 1952 & the 1955 exhibit “Family of Man”. Co-founds Aperture Magazine (1952). Completes 1953 & 1954 photo essays for Life Magazine “Three Mormon Towns, with Ansel Adams and “Irish Country People”. Collaborates with Pirkle Jones on 1956 photo essay “Death of a Valley” (Lake Berryessa). Photo essay “The Public Defender” (1957).

1958 – 1963

Embarks on world travels with Paul Taylor, including Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Hong Kong, Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, Palestine, Nepal, Pakistan, Europe, South America, Egypt, Iraq & Iran. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibits “Death of a Valley” (1960). Begins series “American Country Woman” (1960).  Museum of Modern Art, NY exhibits 85 Lange images in FSA Survey “The Bitter Years” (1962). When at home in Berkeley, concentrates on photographing the “close at hand” - family & grandchildren.

1964

Begins work on Museum of Modern Art, NY retrospective with Director John Szarkowski. Finalizes & publishes series “American Country Woman”.

1965

Dies October 11^th, from inoperable cancer of the esophagus. A two - part television documentary is released.

1966

Dorothea Lange Retrospective Exhibition opens January 25^th at Museum of Modern Art, NY. 

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