Bed, Tennant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama
Photograph
1935 (made)
1935 (made)
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Photograph
Object details
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| Title | Bed, Tennant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | Evans Walker, Bed & Gun, Alabama, 1935; 20thC; Evans Walker, Bed & Gun, Alabama, 1935 |
| Physical description | Photograph |
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| Object history | Walker Evans is one of the most celebrated American photographers. During the Great Depression of the 1930's, he worked for the American government’s Farm Security Administration programme, and created some of the most potent and memorable images of the era. His documentary style focussed on the details of individual human lives in unforgiving circumstances. "I am for man’s work", he said; "nature bores me as an art form". Evans went on to take pictures of people on the New York subway using a hidden camera, a series on tools and Polaroid images of rural and urban Americana. |
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| Accession number | 170-1977 |
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| Record created | July 24, 2003 |
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