- Artist/Maker:
- Consuelo Kanaga
- Bio:
- American, 1894-1978
- Title:
- Untitled (Tenements, New York)
- Date:
- c. 1937
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- 7 11/16 × 6 1/16 in. (19.5 × 15.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of The Paul Strand Trust for the benefit of Virginia Stevens
- Accession Number:
- 2008-69
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Leftist political activism was a strong element in Kanaga’s work, beginning with her photographs of a labor strike in San Francisco in 1934. She provided photographs for progressive publications such as New Masses, Labor Defender, and Sunday Worker. Underlying this formal study of tenement laundry lines (a common motif in League imagery) is Kanaga’s empathy for the living conditions of the working class.
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