Sharecropper (Floyd Burroughs), Hale County, Alabama
About this artwork
This photograph was taken by Evans, while he was working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The subject of the photograph is one of the tenant farmers, whom Evans had got to know, while documenting life in Alabama's devastated cotton belt during the Depression. Evans intended these photographs to represent an objective, non-propagandist record of the Depression. He strove not to create iconic images, but, instead, to be descriptive and avoid stereotypes. Evans and the writer, James Agee who accompanied him on the project, later collaborated to make a book of photographs and writing, called 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.'
Updated before 2020
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artist:Walker Evans (1903 - 1975) American
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title:Sharecropper (Floyd Burroughs), Hale County, Alabama
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date created:1936
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materials:Gelatin silver print (posthumous print)
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measurements:24.00 x 19.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1980
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accession number:GMA 2204
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans
American photographer Walker Evans took up photography in 1928. He made a series of photographs documenting New York from 1928 to 1929, capturing the city from unusual angles and viewpoints and taking pictures of people on the streets. Evans was one of the first photographers to show the reality of...