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"Love & Marriage", New York City
Creator
Dorothea LangeAmerican Photographer · 1895–1965
All works by this person →Born Dorothea Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey, to first-generation German Americans, Dorothea Lange was stricken at age seven with polio, which left her right leg and foot disfigured. Her father abandoned the family when she was twelve. After high school, she apprenticed with portrait photographer Arnold Genthe in Manhattan and studied with Clarence H. White at Columbia University’s Teacher’s Coll
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- 1952
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 28a00a3c-1b40-436a-b9fa-0ff240e5ae07
From LinkedCulture
Two pairs of legs, one in pinstriped trousers and one in seamed stockings and strappy heeled sandals, stand side by side on a New York City pavement, their hands quietly clasped between them. Dorothea Lange made this gelatin silver print in 1952, deliberately cutting the frame at waist height so no face is ever visible. That choice is what makes it matter. By removing identity entirely, Lange turns two anonymous strangers into something every viewer can recognize as their own.
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A pair of man's legs, in a pinstriped suit, and a pair of woman's legs, in stockings and sandals, seen from behind. The couple is holding hands.
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