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Walker Evans — Home of Floyd Burroughs, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
Walker Evans

Home of Floyd Burroughs, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

Walker Evans's photograph documents the home of Floyd Burroughs, a cotton sharecropper in Alabama, as part of his Depression-era documentation work. The gelatin silver print is a powerful record of rural American poverty and domestic life.

Medium
Gelatin silver print, printed later.

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October 12, 2022

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Walker Evans, Home of Floyd Burroughs, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

Walker Evans's photograph documents the home of Floyd Burroughs, a cotton sharecropper in Alabama, as part of his Depression-era documentation work. The gelatin silver print is a powerful record of rural American poverty and domestic life.

Medium
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

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Walker Evans, Documentary Photography, Gelatin Silver Print, American South, Rural Life, Social Documentary, American Culture, Sharecropper, Architecture, Depression Era

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Art Institute of Chicago