Minneapolis Institute of Art

Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

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Date

1936

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Object ID

10522

Walker Evans, along with U.S. journalist James Agee, stayed with the Burroughs family in their four-room house while photographing Hale County, Alabama as part of a documentary project for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The photograph features Allie Mae Burroughs, the matriarch of the Burroughs family with solemn eyes and furrowed brow. Her expression, combined with a simple dress and the unpainted siding of the building behind her partially conveys the struggle of rural families during the Great Depression (1929-39). This photograph was published in Evans and Agee’s book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). United States, Americas

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