Chicken House

21^st Century Digital #5

The top image is a digital “sketch” rendered from the digital photograph at the bottom.

Thousands of Chickens in an Alabama chicken house. (Akvis Sketch rendering) ¹

Thousands of chickens live in this large place where their main function is to lay eggs. Located in Monroe County, Alabama. May 2, 2010.²

Sources:

1. Image rendered via Akvis Sketch v.16.0; detailed sketch, original colors, intensity reduced
2. Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010639851/. (Accessed October 11, 2016.); Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color; Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Highsmith, a distinguished and richly published American photographer, has donated her work to the Library of Congress since 1992. Starting in 2002, Highsmith provided scans or photographs she shot digitally with new donations to allow rapid online access throughout the world. Her generosity in dedicating the rights to the American people for copyright free access also makes this Archive a very special visual resource.