Dorothea Lange

Gift of the photographer to Al Camille

By descent through family

Bonhams, San Francisco, 26 October 2006, Sale 14032, Lot 500

Looking Back: Ten Years at Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 231 (this print)

Willard Van Dyke, 'The Photographs of Dorothea Lange- A Critical Analysis,' Camera Craft 41, no. 10, 1934, p. 463

John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 22

Therese Thau Heymen, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 51

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 47

Therese Thau Heymen, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 10

Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (Kansas City, 1995), p. 23

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 23

Dorothea Lange, The Human Face (Paris, 1998), p. 51

Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange (London, 2001), p. 23

Judith Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002), pl. 6

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition, March – June 2010

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022

This photograph comes originally from the collection of Al Camille (1904-1981), longtime Art Director for McCann-Erickson.  Camille was an active member of San Francisco’s Bohemian Club, through which he likely met fellow member and Lange’s husband Maynard Dixon.