Artwork Details
11 x 10-3/8 in. (sheet) 17 x 15-3/8 in. (mount)
Accession NumberRichard M. Fairbanks Endowed Art Fund
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteEstate of Irwin Welcher
As part of her assignment from the Farm Security Administration, a Depression-era agency, Lange documented the injustice of stoop labor forced upon Filipino migrant workers in the lettuce fields of the central California coast.
"Sometimes you have an inner sense that you have encompassed the thing generally. You know then that you are not taking anything away from anyone: their privacy, their dignity, their wholeness." — Dorothea Lange
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Matter of Record: Photography and the Creation of Meaning
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
September 13, 2024 - April 6, 2025
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