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Street Vendor
Creator
Walker EvansAmerican Photographer · 1903–1975
All works by this person →> Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt. > > -- Walker Evans Walker Evans began to photograph in the late 1920s, making snapshots during a European trip. Upon his return to New Y
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- about 1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 45efde36-b2e3-41af-b0a8-574f62c8538f
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The street was where Walker Evans worked--along Broadway, in Wall Street, around Central Park, on the Bowery, over in Brooklyn, up in the Bronx. French photographer Eugène Atget and American Paul Strand provided part of Evans's inspiration, but his art finally came from life, from the everyday life of the streets. Evans was after "a type in the street, a 'snapshot' of a fellow on the waterfront, or a stenographer at lunch." On the street, where most of New York living takes place, a street vendor stands, peddling his wares. His portable case is slung over his right shoulder, and he lists slightly to that side, literally swayed by the weight of his labor.
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