Object Details
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
Date
ca. 1937 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 19 1/4 × 15 7/16 inches (48.9 × 39.2 cm)
Mount (Matted): 27 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (71 × 56 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Object
Number
65.548
Bourke-White was never a Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer, although she covered simil(…)
Bourke-White was never a Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer, although she covered similar subject matter, particularly in connection with her 1936 trip to document southern sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Photographs like this one recall Dorothea Lange’s famous images of women and children, such as Migrant Mother, that similarly capture the devastating effects of the Depression on America and Americans. This photograph appeared in Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell’s book You Have Seen Their Faces. (“Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist,” curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24 – June 7, 2015)
