Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

70 c DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965) Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside.They hope to work in the cotton fields.There are seven in family. Blythe, California, August 1936. Oversized silver print, the image measuring 15 1 / 2 x17 inches (39.4x43.2 cm.), with numeric notations, in pencil, and a Library of Congress hand stamp on verso. 1936; printed 1960s [6,000/9,000] Steichen, The Bitter Years 1935-1941 (The Museum of Modern Art), p. 31. Steinbeck, Their Blood Is Strong (Simon J. Lubin Society of California, San Francisco), cover (variant).