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Young Cotton Picker, Migrant Camp

Photograph
November 1936 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

photographic print on paper


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleYoung Cotton Picker, Migrant Camp (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
photographic paper, photography
Brief description
Photograph by Dorothea Lange of 'Young Cotton Picker, Migrant Camp'. Kern County, California. November 1936
Physical description
photographic print on paper
Dimensions
    Credit line
    Acquired from The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. in 1973.
    Object history
    Along with photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange worked for the American government’s Farm Security Administration programme during the Great Depression of the 1930's. The F.S.A. was set up to relieve poverty in rural areas but also involved photographing conditions faced by displaced farmers who had been hit by the Depression and by drought. Lange’s Californian Migrant Mother is one of the most widely known of all photographs; the tightly composed, highly concentrated composition has made it an icon of socially committed photography.
    Place depicted
    Association
    Bibliographic reference
    Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1973
    Collection
    Accession number
    CIRC.90-1973

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    Record createdJune 30, 2009
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