Tenant Farmer Floyd Burroughs

A photograph by Walker Evans of Alabama tenant farmer Floyd Burroughs from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book, written by James Agee, details his and Evans's experiences with Alabama tenant farmers and sharecroppers and was published in 1941. Burroughs is referred to as George Gudger in the book.

Portrait of Floyd Burroughs, Hale County Alabama sharecropper photographed by Walker Evans
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Portrait of Floyd Burroughs, Hale County Alabama sharecropper photographed by Walker Evans