Evans, Walker
American (1903-1975)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Burroughs Family, Hale County, Alabama
PUBLISHED TITLE: Sharecropper's Family, Hale County. Alabama

1936 / print ca. 1971 by James Dow from original negative
gelatin silver contact print
19.1 x 24.1 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 19018
72:0017:0011

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Szarkowski, John. --Walker Evans.-- New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971. p. 89.//
Evans, Walker. --First and Last.-- New York: Harper & Row, 1978. pl. 75.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 303.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 596.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Bud Fields & Family, Alabama 1936 [sic]"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/85, RAS/PB, udpated 3/93, DZ. Title and date from --First & Last--. Alternate title from --Walker Evans--. See also 76:191:24. James Dow states that the prints were made on "Kodak Azo paper, processed in Amidol developer and selenium toned." Prints made by Dow can be readily identified "through the clip marks in the four corners as the prints were hung back to back by clothes pins and air dried." [Dow, 4/10/93]

SUBJECTS:
portrait, family / Burroughs family
architecture, wall