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White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco

LANGE, Dorothea

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco
Image: © Dorothea Lange/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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This photograph is one of the most iconic images of America during the Great Depression and represents the first moment Dorothea Lange moved her camera from the studio to the street. Taken in 1933, the photograph captures unemployed men lined up outside a soup kitchen in an area of San Francisco called the White Angel Jungle. The desperation and despair expressed by the man in the centre of the image is palpable as he hunches over an empty tin cup, his face obscured by the wide brim of his hat. Though this photograph was taken in the early 1930s, are there elements that feel familiar to the socio-economic landscape of today?

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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 55052

Creation/Production

LANGE, Dorothea
Date: 1933

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017

Techniques

Gelatin silver print on paper

Material

Photographic paper

Location

In store
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  • Communities And Society
  • Crowd
  • Dorothea Lange
  • Fine Art
  • Identity
  • People
  • Photograph
  • Poverty
  • Woman Artist
  • Works On Paper

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