Korean Child
1958
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 14.7 × 11 cm (5 13/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund
Accession Number
2022.114.1
Art Historical Context
**Korean Child**, a poignant gelatin silver print by Dorothea Lange from 1958, captures artist's enduring commitment to documentary photography. Measuring a intimate 14.7 × 11 cm, this small-scale image exemplifies the gelatin silver process—a black-and-white printing technique prized for its rich tonal gradations and sharp detail, which allowed photographers like Lange to convey profound human stories subtle nuance. Acquired through the Alfred H. Moses and Fern. Schad Fund for the National Gallery of Art's Department of Photographs, it reflects the museum's dedication to preserving mid-20th-c...
About the Artist
Dorothea Lange · 1895–1965
Dorothea Lange, born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, overcame significant personal challenges to become one of America's most influential documentary photographers. Stricken with polio at age seven, she developed a lifelong limp that she credited with shaping her empathetic worldview, famously stating it "formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and hum...