Walker Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903 and after his education, spent time in Paris living the bohemian life before returning to America in the late 1920s. Intending on becoming a writer, he became a photographer instead. Evans had taken up photography in 1928, at the age of twenty-five. It afforded him the opportunity to live, as he said, "very shabbily" in New York City. He experimented with photography by taking pictures of the city street life and vernacular architecture and by making portraits of his artist and intellectual friends. This image of the Sprott, Alabama, general store and Post Office was taken during his travels with James Agee, as they completed their great project, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Medium : 1 nitrate negative

Created/Published : July, 1936

Creator : Walker Evans, photographer, 1903-1975

Part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress

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Product #: 21604039