From the Collection of the Photographer Dick Swift.
This searing image was apparently Lange's first documentary picture, made as the grip of the Depression tightened. The double-weight paper and fine print quality are similar to the master prints made by Irwin Welcher during this period for Lange.
Elliot, Dorothea Lange (The Museum of Modern Art), unpaginated; Metzner, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), pp. 116-17; Partridge, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Smithsonian Institution Press), p. 105; Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Hallmark Cards/Harry N. Abrams), cover and pp. 20-21; Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Little, Brown and Co.), pp. 70-71; Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Photographs in the J. Paul Getty Museum (The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 19.
