Tuesday, August 12, 2008
New Orleans Location Unknown: UPhO #1
Walker Evans took this photograph in January 1936 for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). He identified it on a caption card as "Degenerate period of early twentieth-century New Orleans architecture. Louisiana."
PBS will air a new documentary about the FSA starting in August. "Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the F.S.A./O.W.I Photographers" is narrated by the chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. Julian Bond. It will air on station WLPB on August 18 at 9:00 pm.
Does anyone know where this structure was/is? This is the first in a new series of Unidentified Photograph Objects. . . from the collection of the Southeastern Architectural Archive. The reproduction of the uncropped print from the nitrate negative (click on thumbnail in the above right) may help for context.
UPDATE: Thanks to flickr anthonyturducken for ID-ing this house as the structure at 1439 Annunciation!
[Photograph Left: Detail of Walker Evans, Degenerate Period of Early Twentieth-Century New Orleans Architecture. 01.1936. Copy print from the FSA-OWI Collection/Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress LC-USF342-001291-A. Southeastern Architectural Archive, Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries; Right: Walker Evans, Degenerate Period of Early Twentieth-Century New Orleans Architecture. 01.1936. Uncropped print from nitrate negative, FSA-OWI Collection/Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress LC-USF342-001291-A. ]
Labels:
Eastlake,
FSA,
Queen Anne style,
UPhOs,
Walker Evans
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5 comments:
looks like Annunciation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonyturducken/2627535623/
definitely 1439 Annunciation at Euterpe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonyturducken/2766703700
Oh, wonderful! Thank you very much.
The building partially burned in the area of the tower in the 1980's and was restored in the mid-1990's, by Michael Burke, as a two family residence. I was the architect for the restoration project.
Thank you for the additional info, Rick!
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