Bessemer, Alabama
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1936 (printed 1971)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 × 9 1/8 in. (18.7 × 23.2 cm)
Support: 8 1/4 × 10 in. (21 × 25.4 cm)
Frame: 19 5/8 × 16 1/2 × 7/8 in. (49.8 × 41.9 × 2.2 cm)
Support: 8 1/4 × 10 in. (21 × 25.4 cm)
Frame: 19 5/8 × 16 1/2 × 7/8 in. (49.8 × 41.9 × 2.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Ives Family in memory of Norman S. and Constance T. Ives, 2016
Object number2016.21.4
DescriptionUnpaved road at center of composition, flanked by small houses with peaked roofs and a line of utility poles at left and a fairly empty lot at right with a couple of structures. Along the background is a long row of tall industrial smokestacks and furnaces.eMuseum Notes
Walker
Evans visited Louisiana and the Gulf Coast in 1935 and 1935 as a photographer
for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Adminstration. Evans made some of his
most enduring images of architecture and signage in and around Birmingham,
Alabama, in the mid-1930s and also trained his camera on the structures and
working conditions that were part of that region’s booming steel industry.
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Walker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)
Walker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)
Walker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)
