With little or no outside funding, Jordan fed more than one million hungry men over a three year period. ‘White angel breadline, San Francisco’ is Lange's first major image that encapsulates both her sense of compassion and ability to structure a photograph according to modernist principles. Dorothea Lange. Photography Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Borhan, Pierre. "White Angel Breadline" By Dorothea Lange, San Francisco, California, 1933 National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Social Security Administration (31.12 cm x 25.72 cm) Date Acquired 1963 Credit He also wrote a critique of Lange's work of the October 1834 issue of Camera Craft that was illustrated with five of her photographs, including a substantially cropped version of White Angel Breadline and General Strike/Street Meeting, San Francisco . Gift of Albert M. Bender.
Gelatin silver print.

Lange exposed three negatives there, with her 3 ¼-by-4 ½ Graflex camera, each taken from a slightly different vantage point. View Dorothea Lange’s 821 artworks on artnet. 10 3/4 × 8 7/8" (27.3 × 22.6 cm). ... At the time, her work was taking studio portraits of San Francisco artists and families. 1933. Lois Jordan, a wealthy widow living in San Francisco, known as the White Angel, established a soup kitchen to feed the needy and hungry.

The imploding economy left Lange with few clients and ample free time she wasn’t accustomed to. Decades later, Lange recalled: “ [White Angel Breadline] is my most famed photograph. Lange states, “… 108.1940. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. p. 71. Her most famous image, ‘Migrant mother’ 1936, forms part of the extensive work she did for the FSA project. White Angel Breadline is the result of her first day’s work to document Depression-era San Francisco. The view she captured, of hungry and unemployed men lined


One early outing brought her to a breadline operated by a wealthy woman known as the White Angel, who dispensed food to those in need. White Angel Jungle was a soup kitchen near Lange's San Francisco studio, where many homeless people and unemployed waited there for food. (33.3 x 25.8 cm.) White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco. By logging in, you may be able to gain additional access to certain collections or items. Some of the material in Compass is restricted to members of the Five College community. Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer. x 10 1/8 in. I made that on the first day I ever went out in an area where people said, ‘Oh, don't go there.’ White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933 Artwork Info Artwork title White Angel Breadline, San Francisco Artist name Dorothea Lange Date created 1933 Classification photograph Medium gelatin silver print Dimensions 12 1/4 in. White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933 gelatin silver print, printed c. 1950 signed, dated 'May 1951' and inscribed 'For Chappie Packard, A patient man, and a help to photographers in many ways' in ink (on the reverse of the flush-mount) 13 1/8 x 10¼in.

The White Angel Breadline helped the men in the Depression who were hungry and on the streets looking for work. Lois Jordan, the "white angel," was a working-class widow of limited resources who relied only on unsolicited donations to run the breadline. Dorothea Lange was a seminal American documentary photographer. See available photographs, and prints … 1st American ed. My grandmother had been a portrait photographer, and had a studio in San Francisco. Her studio was at a crossroads where she could look down and see the men drifting about down there. Lange had photographed a man with a tin cup waiting in the breadline hunched over the railing with his hat shielding his pallid face, seeming lost. Dorothea Langes White Angel Breadline is Lange’s first photographic effort undertaken outside the comfort of her San Francisco studio, an exercise that helped cultivate the style that would inform her later work for the federal government. White Angel Breadline: An iconic Depression photo feels hauntingly familiar today May 9, 2020. This photograph shows a breadline at a soup kitchen in San Francisco, California during the depression.