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Hoe Culture, Aniston, Alabama

Photograph
1936 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

20thC. Lange Dorothea, Hoe Culture,Anniston,Alabama, 1936; 20thC; Lange Dorothea, Hoe Culture,Anniston,Alabama, 1936


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleHoe Culture, Aniston, Alabama (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print
Brief description
20thC. Lange Dorothea, Hoe Culture,Anniston,Alabama, 1936; 20thC; Lange Dorothea, Hoe Culture,Anniston,Alabama, 1936
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.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.338-1973

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Record createdJuly 28, 2003
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