DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)

Death in the Doorway, 1938

Details

DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
Death in the Doorway, 1938
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1955
'Euclid Avenue' credit in ink (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
9 3/8 x 11 5/8in. (24 x 29.5cm.)

Literature

Dorothea Lange, The Museum of Modern Art, 1966, p. 41, variant cropping; Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, Aperture, 1982, p. 111, variant cropping; Heyman et al., Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Chronicle Books, 1994, pl. 25, variant cropping

Lot Essay

Not long after Dorothea Lange made this photograph of a migratory laborer's church she decided to crop the image to the doorway as in the present lot. In the 1960s, she changed her mind about the cropping and made prints including the facade and roofline of the building.

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