Mar 24 2018
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Jun 17 2018
1930s Photography from the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art

1930s Photography from the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art

Presented by Birmingham Museum of Art at Birmingham Museum of Art

This small exhibition features the work of Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion Post Wolcott, three photographers who documented the American South during the Great Depression. Images of hardship and hope exist together in photographs representing children in tattered clothes, underemployed young men playing midday checkers, and couples dancing on a Saturday night. Through this selection of photographs, the broader effects of the Great Depression on Alabama and the South are revealed. The photographs were made at the same time as Richard Coe’s Depression-era etchings, featured across the Bohorfoush Gallery in the exhibition Magic City Realism: Richard Coe’s Birmingham.

Admission Info

Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Noon-5pm
First Fridays: open until 9pm
Closed Mondays and Major Holidays
General Admission is FREE

Phone: 205.254.2565

Dates & Times

2018/03/24 - 2018/06/17

Location Info

Birmingham Museum of Art

2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35203