Greene County, Georgia
Dorothea Lange
American, 1895–1965
July 1937
A gelatin silver print by Dorothea Lange that quietly records a woman on a wooden porch, made to document rural life and convey the dignity and hardship of Depression-era Americans.
You first notice the broad sweep of weathered clapboard dominating the frame and the small, patiently seated figure at its edge, where silence, texture, and negative space accumulate into a charged, human presence.
As part of Lange’s Depression-era documentary work, this image helped shape modern documentary photography by making private hardship visible and fostering public awareness of rural poverty and resilience.
Medium
Gelatin silver print, printed 1965
Dimensions
4 5/16 × 5 3/8" (11 × 13.6 cm)
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Accession
782.1968
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