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Tom Mooney, May 1933 (San Quentin)
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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- https://data.getty.edu/museum/collection/person/d6446240-36e4-49d8-a9e7-bf0126c6cd95
- Artist/Maker
- Dorothea Lange
- subject_of[Homepage].id
- https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108J82
- Date
- May 1933
- Medium
- Toned gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Object Type
- Print
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This is Tom Mooney, photographed inside San Quentin State Prison in May 1933, by a then little-known Dorothea Lange. He wears a plain white prison shirt, his face half-lit against a dark background, those deep-set eyes carrying what can only be described as tired but undefeated gravity. Mooney had already served seventeen years for a bombing he almost certainly did not commit. This portrait matters because it shows Lange's earliest commitment to photography as witness, long before her Depression-era work made her iconic.
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- Object ID
- e86886c7-dedc-48d9-9d4d-03dac15fc84a
- Object Type
- Print
- Getty Museum field “Object Type” · copied as is
- Creator
- Dorothea Lange
- Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
- Culture
- American
- Getty Museum field “Culture” · copied as is
- Medium
- Toned gelatin silver print
- Getty Museum field “Medium” · copied as is
- Department
- Photographs
- Getty Museum field “Department” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · Getty's classification category is stored as department.
- Credit Line
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Getty Museum field “Standard Credit Line” · the first available of several museum fields
- Getty Museum field “Source Credit Line” · the first available of several museum fields
- Date
- May 1933
- Getty Museum field “Date” · copied as is
- Begin Year
- 1933
- Getty Museum field “produced_by.timespan.begin_of_the_begin” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- End Year
- 1933
- Getty Museum field “produced_by.timespan.end_of_the_end” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
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