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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965); Street Demonstration, San Francisco; image 1
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965); Street Demonstration, San Francisco; image 2
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965); Street Demonstration, San Francisco; image 3
Lot 166

Dorothea Lange
(1895-1965)
Street Demonstration, San Francisco

1 – 10 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, New York

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

Street Demonstration, San Francisco, 1933
Gelatin silver print, printed before 1965; the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' studio stamp on the reverse.
9 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (23.8 x 19.1 cm.)
sheet 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired directly from the photographer's descendants by the present owner

Literature
John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 22
Therese Thau Heymen, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 51
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 47
Therese Thau Heymen, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 10
Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (Kansas City, 1995), p. 23
Keith F. Davis and Kelle A. Botkin, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 23
Judith Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002), pl. 6

Note
"I assigned myself the task of photographing the May Day demonstrations at Civic Center. I knew there was a great deal of trouble abroad, and that there were going to be demonstrations at the Civic Center by the unemployed, and I said to myself, 'I can't afford to do this and I shouldn't, but I want to.'"
-Dorothea Lange, quoted in Dorothea Lange: The Making of a Documentary Photographer, an oral history interview conducted by Suzanne Riess in 1960-61 (Berkeley, 1968, pp. 149-50)

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