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9-9/16 x 7-5/8 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberGift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Greenleaf
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteWalker Evans was employed for a year during the Depression by the Farm Security Administration, an agency of the Department of Agriculture. His assignment was to make "still photography of a general sociological nature" of the fast-disappearing life and architecture of the rural South. [new para] This frame house on Logan Street in old Charleston, South Carolina, taken in March 1936 at the end of his F.S.A. work, is typical of Evans’ straightforward, eloquent, unemotional, and unsentimental approach to architectural photography.
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