Walker Evans photographed Hale County sharecropper Allie Mae Burroughs during his stay in the region at the height of the Great Depression. Her face became a symbol of rural poverty and stoicism.
Walker Evans Contact Sheet
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Courtesy of Library of Congress. Photograph by Walker Evans.
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