Homer Page
Plates contributed
The 10 plates attributed to Homer Page in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0097 | USA | Family and children | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0120 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0150 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0151 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0162 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0168 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0278 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0374 | USA | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0399 | South Africa | Hardship, suffering, and war | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0484 | USA | Rededication, peace, and the future | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Ten plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0097 (USA), photo-0120 (USA), photo-0150 (USA), photo-0151 (USA), photo-0162 (USA), photo-0168 (USA), photo-0278 (USA), photo-0374 (USA), photo-0399 (South Africa), photo-0484 (USA). Among the top contributors to FoM by plate count (after ‘Photographer unknown’ at 14, Wayne Miller at 12, Henri Cartier-Bresson at 11; Homer Page is tied with Lange at the 9–10 leaders’ band per the strict-match grep). Born 1918; died 1985 per src-wikipedia-homer-page-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09; verbatim lead: ‘Homer Page (1918–1985) was an American documentary photographer’; verbatim categorical metadata: ‘1918 births’, ‘1985 deaths’, ‘20th-century American photographers’). Day-month tokens NOT corroborated against any source fetched in this round; remain blank. Oakland, California birthplace verbatim per src-wikipedia-homer-page-pointer (‘Page was born in Oakland, California’); UC Berkeley graduation in 1940 verbatim from same. Pointer-only Tier-3 status: ICP returned 404 for /browse/archive/constituents/homer-page (verified 2026-05-09 via curl), MoMA returned 403 for /artists/4474 (verified 2026-05-09); no Tier-1 institutional anchor was successfully fetched for Page in this round. The 1949 Guggenheim Fellowship (his most-cited body of work, the New York street photographs of 1949–1950) and his neighbor-mentor relationship with Dorothea Lange (encouraged him to take up photography in 1944) are both verbatim per src-wikipedia-homer-page-pointer; Lange-mentorship situates Page in the same FSA-adjacent California documentary milieu as Lange and is the single biggest curatorial-pathway hint for how Page’s ten FoM plates reached Steichen. FoM inclusion verbatim per src-wikipedia-homer-page-pointer: ‘Some of Page’s photographs were included in Edward Steichen’s landmark Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955.’ The Wikipedia article cites Keith F. Davis’s 2009 Yale University Press monograph Homer Page: The Guggenheim Year, New York, 1949–50 in external links — a Tier-2 promotion of the Page biographical claims awaits a fetch of that monograph or of the Nelson-Atkins Hallmark Photographic Collection’s catalog page.
External biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Page
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