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DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
White Angel Breadline.
Silver print, the image measuring 14x11 inches
(35.6x27.9 cm.), the original mount 16x13
1
/
8
inches (40.6x33.3 cm.),
with Robert A. Taub’s signature, in ink, on mount verso. 1933; printed
1960s
[30,000/45,000]
This photograph was printed by Lange’s master printer, IrwinWelcher.
From the Collection of Robert A.Taub.
Taub was hired by the Ford Motor Company in 1950 and had an early
interest in collecting photography. By the 1970s—the early days of the
photography market—Taub was already immersed in collecting the great
photographers of the 20th century. Eventually he gave a large collection
to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he had also served on the
Committee on Photography for many years. Taub’s commitment to the
medium knew no bounds: his wife installed a sauna in their basement as
a surprise for their 25th wedding anniversary, and just two days later he
had converted it to a darkroom.
Elliot,
Dorothea Lange
(The Museum of Modern Art), unpaginated;
Metzner,
Dorothea Lange:A Photographer’s Life
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux),
pp. 116-17; Partridge, ed.,
Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life
(Smithsonian
Institution Press), p. 105; Davis,
The Photographs of Dorothea Lange
(Hallmark Cards/Harry N. Abrams), cover and pp. 20-21; Borhan,
Dorothea Lange:The Heart and Mind of a Photographer
(Little, Brown and
Co.), pp. 70-71; Keller,
In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Photographs in the J. Paul
Getty Museum
(The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 19.
Detail