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"Have Fare Ready, Please"/ Oakland, California
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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- 1942–1944
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- e1a6d75c-6b53-4273-90ed-0a4d7784a7f8
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A woman in a plaid jacket and polka-dot skirt digs through her handbag on a sunlit Oakland sidewalk, a stack of belongings balanced in her arms, while a small child with a star-pinned hat waits at the edge of the frame. Dorothea Lange made this gelatin silver print between 1942 and 1944, documenting the home front for the Office of War Information. It matters because Lange recognized that the small pressures of everyday wartime life, a bus fare, a crowded street, a distracted moment, carry as much historical weight as any headline.
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A woman reaches into her handbag as she searches for a bus fare. There is a little boy wearing a hat in the bottom of the frame.
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