Bud Fields with His Wife Ivy, and His Daughter Ellen, Hale County, Alabama

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Bud Fields with His Wife Ivy, and His Daughter Ellen, Hale County, Alabama

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Walker Evans

American Photographer · 1903–1975

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> Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt. > > -- Walker Evans Walker Evans began to photograph in the late 1920s, making snapshots during a European trip. Upon his return to New Y

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Date
1936
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
212f22f2-729d-4e03-8c75-a172cf3ec75b

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From mid-July to mid-September 1936, Evans took a leave from his position as an information specialist for the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration to work with the writer James Agee on an assignment for *Fortune* magazine. They traveled to the Deep South to prepare an article on tenant cotton farming. In Alabama they documented the lives of farmers, including the Fields family. Evans found in this average American household the archetypal portrait of the everyman that he treasured. The straight-forward style of this portrait emphasizes the family's hard life as much as their pride.

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