Reparation
Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.4 x Black and white gelatin silver photographs
71 x 50 inches (180 x 127 cm)
2014
Reparation depicts a series of dresses reconfigured from Walker Evans’ images in the seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Published in 1941, the book, written by James Agee and photographed by Evans, takes as its subject three cotton tenant families from Hale County, Alabama. Reparation focuses on the three mothers, reworking their dresses by stitching photographs of fabric that have been sampled from Evans’ original images.
Reparation
Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.Black and white gelatin silver photograph
71 x 50 inches (180 x 127 cm)
2014
Reparation depicts a series of dresses reconfigured from Walker Evans’ images in the seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Published in 1941, the book, written by James Agee and photographed by Evans, takes as its subject three cotton tenant families from Hale County, Alabama. Reparation focuses on the three mothers, reworking their dresses by stitching photographs of fabric that have been sampled from Evans’ original images.
Reparation
Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.Black and white gelatin silver photograph
71 x 50 inches (180 x 127 cm)
2014
Reparation depicts a series of dresses reconfigured from Walker Evans’ images in the seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Published in 1941, the book, written by James Agee and photographed by Evans, takes as its subject three cotton tenant families from Hale County, Alabama. Reparation focuses on the three mothers, reworking their dresses by stitching photographs of fabric that have been sampled from Evans’ original images.
Reparation
Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.Black and white gelatin silver photograph
71 x 50 inches (180 x 127 cm)
2014
Reparation depicts a series of dresses reconfigured from Walker Evans’ images in the seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Published in 1941, the book, written by James Agee and photographed by Evans, takes as its subject three cotton tenant families from Hale County, Alabama. Reparation focuses on the three mothers, reworking their dresses by stitching photographs of fabric that have been sampled from Evans’ original images.
Reparation
Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.Black and white gelatin silver photograph
71 x 50 inches (180 x 127 cm)
2014
Reparation depicts a series of dresses reconfigured from Walker Evans’ images in the seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Published in 1941, the book, written by James Agee and photographed by Evans, takes as its subject three cotton tenant families from Hale County, Alabama. Reparation focuses on the three mothers, reworking their dresses by stitching photographs of fabric that have been sampled from Evans’ original images.
Reparation
Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.Black and white gelatin silver photographs
Installation View
2014
Reparation depicts a series of dresses reconfigured from Walker Evans’ images in the seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Published in 1941, the book, written by James Agee and photographed by Evans, takes as its subject three cotton tenant families from Hale County, Alabama. Reparation focuses on the three mothers, reworking their dresses by stitching photographs of fabric that have been sampled from Evans’ original images.
Reparation
Sleeve (Allie Mae Burroughs).Silver nitrate, bronze, steel, cast sewn photographs
10 x 4 x 4 inches (23 x 10 x 10cm)
2014
Reparation depicts a series of dresses reconfigured from Walker Evans’ images in the seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Published in 1941, the book, written by James Agee and photographed by Evans, takes as its subject three cotton tenant families from Hale County, Alabama. Reparation focuses on the three mothers, reworking their dresses by stitching photographs of fabric that have been sampled from Evans’ original images.