Like the work of most great artists, the best of
Walker Evans’ pictures are marvels of contradiction. Or, rather, they acquire their power through the contradictions they deftly reconcile. Here, a small collection of Walker Evans' photos from his book
‘American Photographs’
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| Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia, 1936 |
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| Roadside Stand Near Birmingham, 1936 |
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| Sidewalk And Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935 |
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| Torn Movie Poster, 1930 |
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| View of Easton, Pennsylvania, 1936 |
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| Westchester, New York, Farmhouse, 1931 |
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| Wooden Church, South Carolina, 1936 |
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| Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife, 1936 |
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| Battlefield Monument, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936 |
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| Birmingham Boarding House, 1936 |
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| Birmingham Steel Mill And Workers' House, 1936 |
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| Citizen in Downtown Havana, 1932 |
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| Girl In Fulton Street, New York, 1929 |
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| Interior Detail of Portuguese House, 1930 |
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| Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner’s House, 1935 |
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| Maine Pump, 1933 |
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| Parked Car, Small Town Main Street, 1932 |
Walker Evans was one of the great naturals. He just took pictures of whatever he saw that was real, or tragic, or funny, or heroic. Always with a perfect sense of the mood of light and the arrangement of forms. He surely does make it look easy.
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