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David McLellan

Tenant Farmer Wife (Allie Mae Burroughs) | Milwaukee Art Museum - 0 views

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#class #austerity #vulnerability #determination

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  • The blunt honesty with which Agee and Evans conveyed a bleak national situation resulted in Fortune's rejection of the story as too controversial, but Agee's account and thirty one of Evans's images were published in 1941 as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. This photograph of Allie Mae Burroughs, the female head of one of three sharecropper families on whom Evans and Agee focused, has become an icon of twentieth century art. The simplicity of Mrs. Burroughs's self presentation, the shallow depth of field, and the narrow tonal range of the print seem to illustrate perfectly the austerity of her circumstances. But it is Evans's masterful rendering of her individual demeanor-the strength of will communicated through the intensity of her expression-that transforms the image from a sentimental portrait of socioeconomic vulnerability into a striking declaration of human determination.
  • David McLellan on 04 Oct 13
     
    This powerful 1936 portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs was originally taken in order to be used in a story for Fortune.  The story was rejected by Fortune for being too bleak, but the inconic image became one of the many famous Faces of the American depression.  The simplicity of the shot, coupled with the simplicity of subject and set up this now famous portrait by Walker Evans.
Kathryn Walker

web page template - 0 views

academic.mu.edu/...depression.htm

#class #1930s #greatdepression

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  • Kathryn Walker on 03 Oct 13
     
    This is an interesting (without being very lengthy) site which describes life during the Great Depression."Practically everyone had to deal with major losses and drastic changes. Children had to cope with the loss of a stable life and an education. Farmers had to learn to live with the loss of their farms that had supported their families. The middle class had to deal with the loss of money and the potential disappearance of their social class."
Kathryn Walker

Walker Percy: A Documentary Film : PBS - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...walker-percy

#class #walker #percy

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  • Kathryn Walker on 03 Oct 13
     
    Having not heard of Walker Percy until this week, I thought it would be helpful to include a website that tells a bit about him. "In his six highly acclaimed novels and several collections of essays, he explored issues ranging from the "modern malaise," race relations and semiotics to the joys of bourbon - all with singular grace and wit. Often referring to himself as an ex-suicide, Percy's work finds wry humor in despair."
Kathryn Walker

Great Depression (economy) :: Economic impact -- Encyclopedia Britannica#toc234457#toc2... - 0 views

www.britannica.com/...Economic-impact

#class #1930s #greatdepression

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  • Kathryn Walker on 03 Oct 13
     
    The website gives a brief description of life in the 1930's. "For Americans, the 1930s will always summon up images of breadlines, apple sellers on street corners, shuttered factories, rural poverty, and so-called Hoovervilles (named for President Herbert Hoover), where homeless families sought refuge in shelters cobbled together from salvaged wood, cardboard, and tin.
Kathryn Walker

Class in the 1930's - 0 views

xroads.virginia.edu/...class.html

#class #1930s #greatdepression

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  • Kathryn Walker on 03 Oct 13
     
    The website provides a glimpse into the class divides in the 1930's. The weathly that lost little in the stock market crash, flaunted their wealth in front of lesser fortunate wealthy and the poor, which the poor resented. The wealthy resented the New Deal programs which were funded by those still working - including themselves.
Drew Yost

Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver | Fenimore Art Museum - 1 views

www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/...1530

#class #fenimore #reprint

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      Drew Yost on 04 Oct 13
       
      The Fenimore Museum is located in Cooperstown, NY.  It is dedicated to the preservation and integration of American Art and History.  "Walker Evans:Carbon and Silver" is an exhibit that experiments with new technology on old prints.  By using digital forms of photos and making ink-jet prints, the exhibitionists believe they can reveal never before seen details in the photos.  Working with contemporaries of Walker himself, the museum believes they have created images that would be the artists approval.
eugene yates

Time-LightBox - 0 views

lightbox.time.com/...ker-evans-american-photographs

#class #halecounty #time

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    This site offers a collection of Evans' photos, all full of elements that if one were to be taken away, it would be incomplete. In a time of despair and hopelessness, Evans captured beauty and contradiction while providing a deeper insight to the world rather than what is on the surface.
  • eugene yates on 08 Oct 13
     
    This article by Time magazine (where he worked as an editor from the 1940's to the mid 1960's) shows several images taken by Walker Evans from the 1930's that are diverse in subject matter and composition. On this site I came to understand how the irony that makes Evans' photography so remarkable. This site is useful in exploring this image because it provides other images to compare and contrast.As well as providing a glimmer of an understanding into his personality.
Sh'nay Holmes

The Great Depression - 1 views

www.shmoop.com/...summary.html

#class #GreatDepression #1930S

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  • Sh'nay Holmes on 05 Oct 13
     
    This is great because it provides a summary of the Great Depression along with a timeline of events. The timeline highlights sufficient times during the 1930s, from the stock market crash, to the unemployment rates, ending with America's involvement in World War II. There is a tab that list the most influential people during the Great Depression such as President Roosevelt, which also summarize their active role during the Great Depression. There a section of photos which helps you get a glimpse into to what life was like during this time. Under the facts section, you are able to find statistics about the economy, unemployment and population during the 1930s
Sh'nay Holmes

Depression & WWII (1929-1945) - 0 views

www.americaslibrary.gov/...jb_wwii_subj.html

#class #WWII #GreatDepression

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  • Sh'nay Holmes on 05 Oct 13
     
    On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed. This day is also known as "Black Tuesday". This was the beginning of the Geat Depression Era in America. During the Great Depression, many Americans were unemployed. President Roosevelt introduced the "New Deal" which offered work relief for the American people. America's entry into War World 2 helped supply jobs for the American people. During this time of war, the demand for supplies for war was high. This provided a growth in the economy as more people began to work.
Sh'nay Holmes

Top 5 Causes of the Great Depression - 0 views

americanhistory.about.com/...greatdepression.htm

#class #GreatDepression #BlackTuesday

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  • Sh'nay Holmes on 05 Oct 13
     
    This site provides a brief synopsis of the top 5 causes for the Great Depression that occurred during the 1930s. The stock market crashed, banks stop giving out loans, many people loss their wages because their funds were not secure in the banks. With high unemployment rates, people stopped stop shopping inventory began to accumulated. This caused a ripple effect to other businesses. The rise on import taxes reduced business transactions with foreign countries. This site mentions the drought in Mississippi Valley although it did not have a direct effect. However, it prevented people from paying their taxes and other debts. They also had to sell their farms for no profit to themselves.
Anamaria Liriano

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming - 0 views

www.pccua.edu/...ropping_and_tenant_farming.htm

#class #thegreatdepression #sharecropping

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  • Anamaria Liriano on 05 Oct 13
     
    This source discusses a brief history of sharecropping and gives perspective of what sharecropping was like from the perspective of living in Arkansas. I chose to include this link because although it may provide more general information, it can give us insight into what the lives of those Walker Evans photographed were like.
Anamaria Liriano

A Paean to Forbearance (the Rough Draft) - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...on-tenants-three-families.html

#class #povertyinamerica #thegreatdepression

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  • Anamaria Liriano on 04 Oct 13
     
    Discusses the legacy of Walker Evans's and James Agee's collaboration in documenting what they saw in Hale County, Alabama. I liked this piece not only for the detail it gives in the controversy that surrounded this project, as well as its legacy, but how it felt from the perspective of the subjects and their descendants (specifically the controversy and sentiment in publishing their names). The piece shows the sort of embarrassment and shame the subjects felt in sharing with the world what their lives looked like, what dire poverty in America looked like during the great depression.
Anamaria Liriano

Walker Evans' iconic photos of the Great Depression at Cantor Arts Center - 0 views

humanexperience.stanford.edu/walkerevans

#class #thegreatdepression #povertyinamerica

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  • Anamaria Liriano on 04 Oct 13
     
    History of Walker Evans's journey into photographing what he saw during the great depression, how an assignment to photograph what he saw truly turned into sharing the truth of the hardship people were enduring as a result of the depression. This source shows us the significance in how Evans chose to document the poor who were suffering; Evans didn't portray his subjects in a light that might otherwise draw upon a viewer's sympathy (which this source goes into more detail), but the reality of the lives of those he photographed.
melissa basso

Poor Whites - 0 views

www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/...poor-whites

#WWII #Poverty #Great Depression

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  • melissa basso on 04 Oct 13
     
    A very insightful website providing details in the issues associated with sharecropping and tenancy farming in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Poor whites suffered ridicule from both wealthy whites and fellow southern blacks, labeled as "white trash" and categorized in terms of labels such as "hillbilly". The signing of the "New Deal" isolated the south. A description of how the world war II began to put an end to such poverty among blacks and whites in the south is offered.
melissa basso

Roosevelts "New Deal" - 0 views

www.history.com/new-deal

#City #Poverty #Great Depression

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  • melissa basso on 04 Oct 13
     
    History.com's interpretation of the New deal. While it did little to end the great depression, it offered hope to society by offering projects and employment opportunities to society. The website includes a picture gallery of a struggling society in the 1930's and the projects that aimed to end it. The images are strong, including one that hits home; a photo of the Times Square Bread line. The North was the first to experience the effects of the great depression.
melissa basso

The Impact of the Great Depression on Women - 2 views

www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief1.htm

#Gender equality #Great depression #New Deal #Race

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  • melissa basso on 04 Oct 13
     
    The Great depression forced many men out of work and out of money. Because of harsh times, men either left their families or sent the women to work, where many times, women were left feeling empowered. However, many men were left feeling worthless due to the dramatic changes, leading to further lack of work and income or worse, a broken home. With FDR's "new deal", aimed at providing employment to the poor, families had hope. However, African Americans were only pushed further into poverty as white males were the first to be hired for long term positions.
Joanna Ng

The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans - 0 views

walkerevans.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/essay

#class #iconic #Alabama

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    This essay by Amanda C. Burdan gives us a larger scope of Evans and his journey through photography while keeping the central point his iconic 'Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife' photo.
melissa basso

Using Race to Classify Class - 0 views

www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?forum-post=op-ed-white-poverty-must-be-good-poverty

#Race #Poverty #Classism

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  • melissa basso on 04 Oct 13
     
    This article breaks down the issue with classism and the research that has been constructed to battle the issue. This particular article is especially important because the author touches on the issue of society deeming poverty as an "only black or brown" issue, further empowering racism and neglecting the issue with economics and American society as a mixture of races and ethnicity. White poverty seems to go ignored or shut behind doors when it comes to scholarly work. he website states: "This fragmentation dilutes the possibility for class solidarity that is needed to push for health, housing, education, and employment reforms."
Joanna Ng

The power of photography - 0 views

www.socialismtoday.org/50/photography.html#The echoes of social reality: Walker Evans (1903-1975)

#class #reality #walkerevansphotos

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    Socialism Today goes deeper into the world of photography, and offers us in-depth insight into the mindsets and meaning behind certain photos and photographers, including Evans and "the echoes of social reality."
Joanna Ng

Walker Evans in His Own Words - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

#class #insight #documentary

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    A real treat, this YouTube video is a peek into the mind of Walker Evans and his photography during the 1930s. He speaks of his work, his journey, and hearing it come from his point of view and voice makes a huge impression.
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