LANGE DOROTHEA (1895 1965) Select group of 38 Farm Security

Sale 2215 - Lot 290

Price Realized: $ 10,200

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Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000

LANGE, DOROTHEA (1895-1965)
Select group of 38 Farm Security Administration photographs by Lange, including multiple variants of her iconic "Migrant Mother." Silver prints, sizes ranging from 7 1/2x6 1/2 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19x16.5 to 19x24 cm.), and the reverse, nearly all with Lange's credit, caption, and date and all with the Library of Congress's numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand(s), and the Library of Congress hand stamp, on verso. 1936-1939; printed circa 1970

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accompanied by--A group of 5 F.S.A. photographs by Arthur Rothstein. Silver prints, from 7 1/2x7 1/4 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19x18.4 to 19x24 cm.), and the reverse, each with Rothstein's credit, caption, date and the Library of Congress's numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand(s), and the LC's hand stamp, on verso. 1935-1938; printed circa 1970.

Each print is housed in a sleeve, nearly all with "The Likes of Us" sticker detailing a page number, and all with a second sticker with the LC number and title. [See: Stuart Cohen, The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration (Godine, 2008).]