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Dorothea Lange, American, 1895 - 1965
Title: Nora Kenneally at her Fireside, County Clare, Ireland, 1954
Date: 1955
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
23.3 x 30.8 cm
Credit Line: Presented, in memory of John Eaglefeather Dixon, 2019
Object Number: NGI.2019.209
DescriptionInspired by an anthropologist’s book, titled The Irish Countryman, Dorothea Lange persuaded the editors of Life magazine to hire her and her son Daniel Dixon to create a photo-essay about Ireland for their magazine. During fall of 1954, Dorothea Lange photographed for a month in Ireland, mainly in the western county of Clare. Here she met and befriended hard-working people of modest means who, unlike the tenant farmers and displaced migrants of the Great Depression, farmed and worked their family-owned land. With her son Daniel Dixon providing text, Lange submitted a story based on her photographs to Life magazine, “Irish Country People”, which was published (in a heavily edited form) in the March 21, 1955 issue.