Farmer's kitchen, Hale County, Alabama
Photograph
1936 (photographed)
1936 (photographed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
'In 1936 Evans travelled in the American South with his friend, the writer James Agee, who had been assigned to write an article on tenant farmers by Fortune magazine; Evans was to be the photographer. What in time emerged from the collaboration was Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a lyric journey to the limits of direct observation and one of the seminal achievements of twentieth-century American letters. Evans's photographs of the Burroughs family's tidy kitchen are distilled essences of domesticity and recall Agee's comment that everything in the cabin "might be licked with the tongue and made scarcely cleaner". ' Text kindly contributed by Jeff L. Rosenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Farmer's kitchen, Hale County, Alabama (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | 20thC; Evans Walker, Farmers kitchen, Alabama, 1936 |
| Physical description | View in black and white of a farmer's kitchen, with a table covered in oil-cloth and an oil lamp |
| Dimensions |
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| Production type | Unlimited edition |
| Object history | Given by Graphics International Ltd, Washington, D.C. |
| Production | Attribution note: The original commission came from Fortune magazine but Evans then became an employee of the US Farm Security Administration Reason For Production: Commission |
| Summary | 'In 1936 Evans travelled in the American South with his friend, the writer James Agee, who had been assigned to write an article on tenant farmers by Fortune magazine; Evans was to be the photographer. What in time emerged from the collaboration was Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a lyric journey to the limits of direct observation and one of the seminal achievements of twentieth-century American letters. Evans's photographs of the Burroughs family's tidy kitchen are distilled essences of domesticity and recall Agee's comment that everything in the cabin "might be licked with the tongue and made scarcely cleaner". ' Text kindly contributed by Jeff L. Rosenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 183-1977 |
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| Record created | February 7, 2004 |
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