Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Dorothea Lange
Ex-Slave with Long Memory, Alabama
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:37 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Ex-Slave with Long Memory, Alabama
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to unprocessed photographic paper, annotated '#13' and '36,' likely in the photographer's hand, in ink on the reverse, framed, 1937, probably printed in the early 1950s
image: 13 ¼ by 10 ½ in. (33.7 by 26.7 cm.)
frame: 22 by 18 ½ in. (55.9 by 47 cm.)
By descent through family to the present owners
Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman (Fort Worth: The Amon Carter Museum, 1967), p. 53
Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life (New York, 1978) p. 216
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (New York: Aperture, 1982), p. 93
Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco, 1992), pl. 62
Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 69 (variant)
Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange (New York and London, 2001), p. 73
Pierre Borhan, ed., Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 122 (variant)
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019), p. 34