Boarding House Porch, Birmingham, Alabama
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1936 (printed 1971)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (18.4 × 23.5 cm)
Support: 8 3/8 × 10 in. (21.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 17 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (44.8 × 37.1 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)
Support: 8 3/8 × 10 in. (21.3 × 25.4 cm)
Mat: 17 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (44.8 × 37.1 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Ives Family in memory of Norman S. and Constance T. Ives, 2016
Object number2016.21.8
DescriptionWooden steps and front porch of a multi-story building with carved columns and ornamented supports. Two men seated at left of front door. Several chairs, a flower pot, two wooden crates, and a paint can or pail on porch. Sign reading “Furnished Rooms” and street address “2446” at right of door. Two tall rectangular windows at right of structure with smaller window in second story above that has clothing hanging out of it.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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