Inv. No.S-0429
Title
"A little hillbilly girl sleeping on a ratty brass bed. Memphis, TN"
Year1940 / 1980s
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions17 x 23 cm
Signature
artist- and title-label, credit-stamp on verso
Comment
Like in „Alberta Askins Flynn, pregnant …“ (S_3409), Elisofon shows in a social documentary way a sleeping child in a scruffy bed – following the tradition of the FSA photographers.
Fritz Simak
Eliot Elisofon, "A little hillbilly girl sleeping on a ratty brass bed. Memphis, TN", 1940
S-0429, Front view
© Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, Washington
S-0429, Front view
© Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, Washington
Eliot Elisofon, "A little hillbilly girl sleeping on a ratty brass bed. Memphis, TN", 1940
S-0429, Back view
S-0429, Back view
Eliot Elisofon, "A little hillbilly girl sleeping on a ratty brass bed. Memphis, TN", 1940
S-0429, Vgl. Eliot Elisofon, „Alberta Askins Flynn, pregnant …“, 1940, Sammlung Simak 3409
S-0429, Vgl. Eliot Elisofon, „Alberta Askins Flynn, pregnant …“, 1940, Sammlung Simak 3409