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Hale County

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Hale County

Administrative district in west-central Alabama; area 1,712 sq km/661 sq mi, population (1990) 15,500. Its seat is at Greensboro (population 3,000). The Black Warrior River forms its western boundary, while the Talladega National Forest lies in the northeast.

Hale County lies in rural hill country in the Black Belt region. It was the site of a 1936 sojourn by writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans that was recorded in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, their noted account of the lives of poor sharecroppers.
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This is Hale County, Alabama, one of the poorest places in the US and the rural backwater 'beneath the radar' of regulation where Samuel Mockbee found space to develop his Rural Studio.
Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency. (More ... by Wigglesworth, Sarah / The Architectural Review
A terrific piece by William Christenberry, meanwhile, can be seen as a deconstruction of the older photographer: Building, Hale County, Alabama, 1967-2000, a grid of sixteen pictures of a single buil ding as it is renovated, expanded, and transformed over thirty-odd years, starts out looking just like Evans and winds up closer to Bernd and Hilla Becher, not only describing a different structure (and a different America) but invoking a different conceptual genre.
"Overnight to many cities": 303 Gallery. (Reviews -- New York) by Frankel, David / Artforum International
Jim Simmerman introduces an ineffable sense of loss in "Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama.
Wherever Home Begins: 100 Contemporary Poems by Vasilakis, Nancy / The Horn Book Magazine
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