id: 155044
accession number: 1989.60
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.60
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San Francisco Waterfront, the General Strike, 1933. Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965). Gelatin silver print; image: 23.1 x 12.1 cm (9 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); paper: 23.5 x 12.5 cm (9 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1989.60
title: San Francisco Waterfront, the General Strike
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creation date: 1933
creation date earliest: 1933
creation date latest: 1933
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creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: Gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965) - artist
Dorothea Lange American, 1895-1965
Dorothea Lange was a well-known documentary photographer who created memorable images of depression-era America. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange gained her first photographic experience working for Arnold Genthe in New York City. She then studied with Clarence H. White at his School of Photography and in 1919 opened a portrait studio in San Francisco. The following year she married painter Maynard Dixon and continued to work as a studio photographer until the early 1930s, when she began photographing unemployed laborers and labor strikes.
Paul Taylor, a University of California economics professor who later became Lange's second husband, was impressed by her documentary work and in 1934 hired her to photograph migrant agricultural workers for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. Lange's work for Taylor led to a job with Roy Stryker at the U.S. Resettlement Administration (later called the Farm Security Administration) in 1935, photographing unemployed and homeless migrant workers, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In 1942, the year after she received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Lange began photographing Japanese-American internment camps in the United States.
Later Lange worked for the Office of War Information and as a freelance photographer for Life magazine and other publications. She also traveled with Taylor to Asia, Latin America, and the Near East. In 1966, the year after her death, a major retrospective of Lange's work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 23.1 x 12.1 cm (9 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Paper: 23.5 x 12.5 cm (9 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1989
opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).
title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00
Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00
Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007).
title: From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression
opening date: 2017-08-13T04:00:00
From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
John Dixon (the artist's son), San Francisco
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CITATIONS
E. H. T. "The Year in Review: Selections 1989." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (1990): 38-78.
page number: p. 68, no. 43
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25160106
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 220
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