Consuelo Kanaga, Untitled (Tenements, New York), Gelatin silver print, c. 1937
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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