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DOROTHEA LANGE (1895 - 1965)
A selection of 5 photos from the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. Circa 1942-43; printed circa 1981. Silver prints, the images measuring 194x241 mm; 7⅝x9½ inches, and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with an Oakland Museum Art Department label with Lange's typed credit, a title, negative number, and some with the date, on verso.
The titles are: Shipyard worker, Richmond, California, circa 1943 * Shift Change 3:30 PM Coming out of Yard 3, Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond, California, circa 1942 * Shipyard Workers, Richmond, California, circa 1943 * MacDonald Street, Richmond, California, 1942 * Lunch Hour, Richmond Yard #2, Richmond, California, Spring 1943
"As the nation prepared for war, Fortune magazine hired Lange to document the huge naval production at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. Her photographs of the shipyards emphasized a spirit of patriotic unity. Well paid jobs attracted thousands of workers. Men and women of different races and classes all worked together in a new way to help win the war. Along with conveying the massive scale of production, Lange's photographs characteristically captured personal moments between workers." --Oakland Museum of California
Reproduced Katherine Archibald, Wartime Shipyard (University of California Press, 1947), cover (Shift Change)
