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DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
Lot 415

DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)

Death in the Doorway, 1938

Closed14 October 2008

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USD 12,500

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DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
Death in the Doorway, 1938
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1955
'Euclid Avenue' credit in ink (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
9 3/8 x 11 5/8in. (24 x 29.5cm.)

Specialist note

Not long after Dorothea Lange made this photograph of a migratory laborer's church she decided to crop the image to the doorway as in the present lot. In the 1960s, she changed her mind about the cropping and made prints including the facade and roofline of the building.