Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Cotton Sharecroppers
Walker Evans · 1936
Why it's great
Three cotton sharecroppers sit together on a porch in Alabama in 1936. Walker Evans photographed families in Hale County for the government and a magazine, and the dignity in the faces made the photographs famous.
🏛️ Part of history
The Great Depression (1929–1939) — Three cotton sharecroppers sit together on a porch in Alabama in 1936.
Where to see it
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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.
