Sujet

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres, Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas. "Some of 'em don't get nothin'. They just make these niggers chop that cotton." Few leave the bottoms. "They ain't got nothin' to go on".

Date

1938

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_314

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,4Mo (1,5Mo) / 35,2cm x 37,4cm / 4152 x 4414 (300dpi)

Mots clés

South countryside agriculture field fields people black male job man men farming economics country fence barbed wire guy occupation tools tool Southern photography rustic farmer poor poverty farmland location century profession thirties concept depression negative recession cotton exploitation African American African-American B&W afro-american hoe hoeing cotton field United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression rural American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer rural life photograph united states Regionalism Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative sharecropper tenant farmer