Dorothea Lange, Kern County, California
Gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo · Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content ProgramView original →
Dorothea Lange

Kern County, California

negative 1937; print later

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
26.7 × 34 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-398139

View outside of an auto camp for migratory laborers in grapes and cotton. A car is parked beside a row of small shacks. The shack at the front has a hand painted sign reading "Men in camp wants work." A sign on a post next to the houses advertises tent spaces for seventy-five cents per week.

Provenance

Gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo

Registry history

  • negative 1937; print later — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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