Lot 389
Theodore 'Fonville' Winans (American/Louisiana, 1911-1992), 'Angola Hoers', silver gelatin print, signed and dated '1938' lower left, estate number '065A' and pencil numbered edition 16/50 en verso, 16 in x 20 in., unframed. Note: The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, West Feliciana Parish, is an 18000 acre tract acquired from plantation owners between 1880 and 1916. Inmates today grow some four million tons of produce on 'The Farm'. Fonville, who worked as a photographer for the state of Louisiana from 1938-1940, made this striking image of female inmates working in the fields under the looming figure of their mounted guard. None of the figures look at the photographer; the guard is a faceless symbol of authority, while the profiles of the women, silhouetted against the open sky, seem to look forward to endless days of labor.
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