Tractored Out
Photograph
1938 (made)
1938 (made)
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Photograph (silver print)
Object details
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| Title | Tractored Out (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | photographic paper, silver print |
| Brief description | Photograph (silver print) by Lange DorotheaL 'Tractored Out' power farming displaces tenant's Childress County, Texas, 1938 |
| Physical description | Photograph (silver print) |
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| Gallery label | Gallery 100 ‘A History of Photography’, 2014-2015, label text:
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965)
‘Former Texas Tenant Farmers Displaced by Power Farming’
1938, printed 1970s
In the 1930s, the American government’s Farm Security Administration commissioned Lange and several of her contemporaries to document the lives of rural workers living in communities affected by the economic depression. The hardship endured by sharecroppers, migrant workers and displaced families was brought to public attention when Lange’s powerful and emotive photographs were published in free newspapers across America.
Gelatin silver prints
Museum no. Circ.339-1973
(06 03 2014) |
| 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. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1973 |
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| Accession number | CIRC.339-1973 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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