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Portrait of Young Hopi Indian, New Mexico
Portrait of Young Hopi Indian, New Mexico

Portrait of Young Hopi Indian, New Mexico

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965)
Dateca. 1923
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 5/16 × 6 11/16 inches (18.57 × 16.99 cm)
Mount (1): 7 7/16 × 6 13/16 inches (18.89 × 17.3 cm)
Mount (2): 8 7/16 × 7 15/16 inches (21.43 × 20.16 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4315
SignedSigned on image recto, upper left corner, in pencil: "Dorothea Lange"
InscribedOn mount 2 recto, lower right, in blue pen: "Will [?] Hopi?"
Markingsnone
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While working quietly as a portrait photographer during the 1920s, Dorothea Lange made several trips to New Mexico with her first husband, painter Maynard Dixon. Inspired by the people and landscape, Lange’s portraits are a fusion of her studio portraiture techniques and her later, much better known, documentary style. Lange’s photographs, taken during visits to Navajo and Hopi country, do not romanticize her subjects but rather depict them with an interested detachment.
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