Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas  c. 1938 - 1950

Dorothea Lange's "Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas" is a poignant black and white photograph that exemplifies her documentary style and social awareness. Captured between 1938 and 1950, the image portrays a sharecropper in Texas, his weary expression reflecting the harsh realities of his labor. The photograph depicts a man leaning on a fence post in a cotton field, highlighting the monotonous and often brutal conditions faced by sharecroppers. This image, part of Lange's extensive documentation of the American South during the Great Depression, effectively captures the struggles and hardships faced by marginalized communities.