DOROTHEA LANGE | ONE MAN, ONE MULE, GREENE COUNTY, GEORGIA
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DOROTHEA LANGE
1895-1965
ONE MAN, ONE MULE, GREENE COUNTY, GEORGIA
oversized gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, numerical notations in pencil on the reverse, 1937, probably printed from the original negative circa 1965 under the direct supervision of the photographer for The Museum of Modern Art
image: 16 by 21¼ in. (40.6 by 54 cm.)
framed: 29 by 33¾ in. (73.7 by 85.7 cm.)
Acquired by the present owner, 2002
George P. Elliott, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 45
The first major Dorothea Lange retrospective was presented at The Museum of Modern Art in 1966. Before her death in October 1965, Lange had worked closely with John Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography, to prepare the installation. The photographs were printed to Lange's careful specifications and according to the layout that she and Szarkowski together had designed. Two sets of photographs were printed in preparation for a never-realized travelling component of the exhibition; the Museum retained one set and the second was deaccessioned. The numbers on the reverse of the mount correspond to those from the checklist for the 1966 exhibition. The full title of the negative in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is as follows: 'The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia.'