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Cotton Pickers’ Camp, Nipomo California
Also titled Katoenplukkershuis, Nipomo California
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965)
1936-02
- Medium
- baryta paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 191 mm x width 241 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
A young cotton picker in the grim years of the Great Depression. Lange was originally a portrait photographer, as is clear to see. In the 1930s she recorded the working and living conditions in rural America for the Farm Security Administration. In search of work, entire families migrated throughout the country, living in tents, shacks, and automobiles.
