End of Shift, Richmond, California

Dorothea Lange · 1942

You're looking at End of Shift, Richmond, California — a photograph by Dorothea Lange, nineteen forty-two. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray. In the picture, look for the city street and the group of people. Lange was part of the social realism movement.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 1965 · Dimensions 29 13/16 × 23 7/16" (75.7 × 59.5 cm) · Credit Purchase Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 409: Ensaio de balé (Ballet Rehearsal)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, Pendant l'éclipse, The Steerage

More by Dorothea Lange here: Hand, Indonesian Dancer, Java