[Former Mayor's Office, Sprott, Alabama]
Walker Evans American
Not on view
In October 1973, Evans began making photographs with a Polaroid camera, a new technology that made instant color prints. He used it voraciously over the next year, including on a visiting lectureship at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. During his stay, he returned to Hale County, the site where nearly forty years earlier he made the classic Depression-era photographs of tenant farmers and their families that were then published in 1941 as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (with text by James Agee).