Death in a Doorway (Doorstep of Church, Grayson, San Joaquin Valley, California)
Grayson, April 20, 1939
Dorothea Lange
Film negative
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
4 in x 5 in
A67.137.38063.1
© The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California.
Grayson was a migratory agricultural laborers' shack-town. Boys were playing baseball in the road that passes this building, which was used as a church. Otherwise, this corpse, lying at the church door, was alone, unattended, and unexplained.
Alternate Title and/or Date
During her lifetime Lange’s photographs appeared in a variety of exhibitions and publications, sometimes years after they were taken. This often resulted in multiple titles for the same image.
During her lifetime Lange’s photographs appeared in a variety of exhibitions and publications, sometimes years after they were taken. This often resulted in multiple titles for the same image.
Doorstep of Church
Additional Information
Inscription: People Towns and Places
All on Migratory labor on the road, and in the camps. Pretty cold. Made over a week-end. These are all about the migratory workers, different aspects, in the same dreadf
Inscription: People Towns and Places
All on Migratory labor on the road, and in the camps. Pretty cold. Made over a week-end. These are all about the migratory workers, different aspects, in the same dreadful monotony. Sept. 1964
