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Lange, Dorothea
(1895-1965)General Strike, San Francisco

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General Strike, San Francisco. 1934. Gelatin silver print, printed early 1970s. 34,2 x 26,5 cm (sheet 35,5 x 27,8 cm). Photographer's "1163 Euclid Avenue Berkeley, California" stamp and number in pencil on verso.

During the Great Depression, Lange turned from studio portraiture to photographing the social and economic hardship she encountered on the streets of San Francisco. Her images of breadlines and labour demonstrations established the direct, socially engaged approach that would define her documentary work. This photograph of the 1934 General Strike combines a strong sense of composition with close attention to the people and tensions surrounding the labour movement.That year, economist Paul Taylor, who later became Lange's second husband, used another of her photographs to illustrate an article on the strike in Survey Graphic. It marked the beginning of their professional and personal relationship.


Literatur: Robert Coles. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York: Aperture 1982, ill. p. 47.
Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips and John Szarkowski. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. San Francisco: SFMOMA, 1994, ill. pl. 10.