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White angel breadline by 
																	Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

( American, 1895 - 1965 )

White angel breadline

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Materials:

gelatin silver print mounted

Measurements:

13.50 in. (34.30 cm.) (height) by 10.75 in. (27.30 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed credited and annotated 'Credit - U. S. Camera Salon' in unidentified hands in pencil on mount; credited 'Dorothy Lange [sic]' and annotated...verso; photographer's letterpress 'Pictures of People, 2515 Gough Street, San Francisco' studio label

Literature:

Other prints of this image, with variant croppings: T. J. Maloney, U. S. Camera 1935, p. 157 Ansel Adams, How To Do It Series, No. 8: Making a Photograph, An Introduction to Photography (New York, 1935), p. 93 John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (The Museum of Modern Art, 1966, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 20 Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 57 Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 45 Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 1 Karen Tsujimoto, Dorothea Lange, Archive of an Artist (Oakland Museum, 1995), p. 9 Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), cover and p. 21 Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 71 Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 483 Vicki Goldberg and Robert Silberman, American Photography: A Century of Images (San Francisco, 1999), p. 82 Marianne Fulton, Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America (Boston, 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 133

Provenance:

The photographer to U. S. Camera Annual, circa 1934 Gifted by the photographer to an editor at U. S. Camera Annual, following the picture's publication and exhibition Acquired by the present owner from the above, early 1980s

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