Sunday Morning, Kern County, California
Dorothea Lange's "Sunday Morning, Kern County, California" is a gelatin silver print that exemplifies her documentary photography practice focused on rural American life and labor during the mid twentieth century. The photograph captures a moment of everyday life in California's agricultural landscape, rendered with Lange's characteristic attention to human dignity and social observation. Through the gelatin silver print medium, Lange achieved the rich tonal range and detail that defined her influential body of work documenting American social conditions.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
April 2, 2025
Lot 221
Spotted works by Dorothea Lange
Artists in conversation
Walker Evans
American · b. 1903
Evans similarly used gelatin silver prints to document rural American poverty and agricultural communities during the Depression era, sharing Lange's commitment to social realism and dignified portraiture of working class life in stark black and white tonal ranges.
Russell Lee
American · b. 1903
As a fellow Farm Security Administration photographer, Lee documented the same rural American landscapes and everyday moments of agricultural communities with comparable attention to social observation and the quiet dignity of ordinary life.
Arthur Rothstein
American · b. 1915
Rothstein's Depression era documentary photography captured American rural and agricultural subjects with the same horizontal compositional sensibility and melancholic social realist approach that defines this Lange print from California's farming communities.
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