Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama

Walker Evans · 1936

Why it's great

Allie Mae Burroughs, the wife of a cotton sharecropper, looks straight at the camera in 1936. Walker Evans took this photograph for a project that became the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, about poor farming families during the Depression.

🏛️ Part of history

The Great Depression (1929–1939) — Allie Mae Burroughs, the wife of a cotton sharecropper, looks straight at the camera in 1936.

Where to see it

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Hang it on your wall

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About the artist

Walker Evans

1903–1975 · born in St. Louis · died in New Haven

Walker Evans was an American photographer born in St. Louis in 1903. He photographed poor farm families for the government during the Depression, and his plain, honest style shaped documentary photography. He lived in New York and died in New Haven in 1975.