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Family Portrait: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 10:27pm.
Summer of 1936. William Edward "Bud" Fields, wife Lily Rogers Fields and infant daughter Lilian at their sharecropper cabin in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Fields Bandanna
Submitted by Dewey on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 9:20pm.
I seem to recall reading an interview with Lilian Fields who said that her father had some kind of abscess or skin lesion on his chest when the photo was taken. He draped a red bandanna around his neck to conceal it.
Newspaper Decor?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 5:41pm.
What's in the clipping on the wall? I can't quite tell. Thanks!
[I don't know if it's from a newspaper, but it says "The little Drakes." - Dave]
Family Portrait: 1936
Submitted by Sean Payne on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 12:46am.
Notice the clean white sheets. I imagine the work it must have taken to keep them that way. It says a great deal.
The Fieldses
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 11/22/2007 - 8:41am.
At least they live in a cabin. There was a photo recently showing a family living in a tent.
Fields family
Submitted by jbart on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 1:13pm.
"The Most Famous Story We Never Told" (Fortune magazine). Includes a brief interview with a grandson of Bud Fields and other descendants of the Hale County families depicted in Evans's photographs and in the book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
More on Walker Evans here.
Where is Lilian now
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 6:26pm.
I want to know where the baby is now-- what is life like now? She'd be roughly 73-ish. How does it affect someone to be in a "historical" photo? Especially one documenting rural poverty of this kind.
Older man, younger woman
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 6:18pm.
I am fascinated by the age difference. Maybe there is hope for me yet.
Fourth person...
Submitted by Lexxvs on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 1:31am.
The only creepy thing I see on this picture is called poberty.
[Let's not forget ignorance. - Dave]
Fourth Person
Submitted by IDLERACER on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 11:28pm.
The caption mentions nothing about the mysterious (and somewhat sinister looking) individual, peeking through the door behind them.
[It's Grandma - probably Lily's mother. - Dave]
The Door
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 9:18pm.
Who is that coming through the door behind them? Creepy.
Are there not four in this picture?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 5:22pm.
Am I imagining ghosts, or isn't a fourth person peeking around the back door?
Lewis Hine
Submitted by Paul Mooney on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 3:18pm.
What a fascinating and beautiful collection.
[Agreed, although this photo is by Walker Evans, not Lewis Hine. - Dave]
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