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Bud Fields with His Wife Ivy, and His Daughter Ellen, Hale County, Alabama

Walker Evans1936

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

From mid-July to mid-September 1936, Evans took a leave from his position as an information specialist for the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration to work with the writer James Agee on an assignment for Fortunemagazine. They traveled to the Deep South to prepare an article on tenant cotton farming. In Alabama they documented the lives of farmers, including the Fields family. Evans found in this average American household the archetypal portrait of the everyman that he treasured. The straight-forward style of this portrait emphasizes the family's hard life as much as their pride.

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  • Title: Bud Fields with His Wife Ivy, and His Daughter Ellen, Hale County, Alabama
  • Creator: Walker Evans
  • Date Created: 1936
  • Physical Dimensions: 19.4 × 24.4 cm (7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
  • Type: Print
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 84.XM.956.302
  • Culture: American
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Creator Display Name: Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)
  • Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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