Breakfast room at Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana, March 1935
Photograph
1935 (Photographed)
1935 (Photographed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Photograph of a breakfast room in Louisiana by Walker Evans, 1935.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Breakfast room at Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana, March 1935 |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin Silver Print |
| Brief description | Photograph of a breakfast room in Louisiana by Walker Evans, 1935. |
| Gallery label | Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2011-2012, label text :
Walker Evans (1903-75)
‘Room in Louisiana Plantation House’
1935
Evans is most famous for his simple and meditative
use of ‘straight photography’ to record American life.
His prevailing subject was the American vernacular,
which he photographed with a precise sense of
composition. Evans’ haunting image of Belle Grove, a
plantation house in Louisiana that was built by slaves,
shows that architecture itself can act as a form of
social commentary.
Gelatin silver print
Museum no. Ph.176-1977
(07 03 2014) |
| Place depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Tawadros, Gilane, ed. Brighton Photo Biennial 2006. Brighton : Brighton Photo Biennial : Photoworks, c2006. 160 p. : ill. (some col.). ISBN: 1903796202. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 176-1977 |
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| Record created | November 28, 2006 |
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