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[Lucky Strike Advertisement, Alabama]

Walker Evans American
October 1973
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).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Lucky Strike Advertisement, Alabama]
  • Artist: Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
  • Date: October 1973
  • Medium: Instant internal dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX-70)
  • Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.9 cm (3 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. Bequest and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.245.109
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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