[Lucky Strike Advertisement, Alabama]

Walker Evans American

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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).

[Lucky Strike Advertisement, Alabama], Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut), Instant internal dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX-70)

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