San Joaquin County, Stockton, California
Catalogue
- Year
- 1975
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 8 3/16 × 11 13/16" (20.9 × 30.0 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Pirkle Jones
Artist
Photography
Pirkle Jones was an American photographer whose work documents postwar American life with a focus on rural communities, labor, and social conditions. Active from the 1940s onward, his black-and-white photographs combine documentary rigor with a humanistic sensibility. Jones worked in the tradition of social documentary photography, capturing everyday scenes and portraiture that reveal the textures of American working life during and after World War II.
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Untitled
1976 · Gelatin silver print
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1958 · Gelatin silver print, from "Portfolio Two: Twelve Photographs by Prikle Jones" (1968)
Cowboy, Arizona
1957 · Gelatin silver print, from "Portfolio Two: Twelve Photographs by Prikle Jones" (1968)
Grape Picker, Berryessa, California
1956 · Gelatin silver print, from "Portfolio Two: Twelve Photographs by Prikle Jones" (1968)
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1955 · Gelatin silver print, from "Portfolio Two: Twelve Photographs by Prikle Jones" (1968)
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- Pirkle Jones
- Year
- 1975
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 8 3/16 × 11 13/16" (20.9 × 30.0 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1975-M045254
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified