Walker Evans photographs of Alabama exhibited at JCSM
"American Classics: Selected Photographs of Alabama" by photographer Walker Evans will be on display June 13 through Aug. 23 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. This exhibition features a selection of images made in 1936, when the editors of Fortune magazine sent writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans on assignment to document the southern sharecropping economic system. The exhibition includes original photographs on loan to JCSM and images reprinted with express consent from the Library of Congress. "The photographs in this exhibition reveal the innate strength and nobility of these Hale County sharecroppers, and by studying them we discover our shared humanity. In many ways Evans' images have evolved into an impressionable national memory of the Depression era," said Marilyn Laufer, museum director. On July 17, Laufer will present a program on Evans followed by a reception. This program is free to the public.
