Object number:
A67.137.93822
Object name:
layout
Title:
Three Mormon Villages
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
August 1953
Material / Technique:
Paper and ink with gelatin silver prints
Dimensions:
H: 9.375 in, W: 19.125 in
Credit line:
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Physical description:
One of a series of mock-up panels (A67.137.93807-.93829) for a proposed magazine article on Three Mormon Villages. Large rectangle of paper, with photographs and paper captions affixed to the surface.
Content description:
Photographs of landscapes and people in three towns in Utah, assembled with accompanying text as the mockup for a proposed magazine article. A shortened, simplified version of the article eventually appeared in Life magazine in 1954.
Concepts:
mount; story; business; truck; newspaper; automobile; hydrogen bomb; sign; NARRATIVE; stop sign; vending machine; Dorothea Lange Project: Three Mormon Towns; seed; cafe; highway; hotel; hand; Russian; text; outdoors; building; motel; traffic control; Mormon; road sign; neon; pavement; street; magazine; stove
Places:
Utah; St. George, Utah
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