Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February
Dorothea Lange|Library of Congress
1939, printed ca. 1972
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Phyllis D. Massar, 1972
Accession Number
1972.737.12
Tags
WorkingMenFarmers
About the Artist
Dorothea Lange|Library of Congress · 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...