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Third Avenue, New York City, Antique Sidewalk Display
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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- 1962
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 87c986dd-5e96-476e-8f8d-093a86fd98be
From the Getty Museum record
Although he lived in the heart of Manhattan during the period of its most rapid urban growth, Walker Evans preferred the decrepit to the new, the traditional to the modern. The demise of the Third Avenue El in the mid-1950s and changes in zoning laws in 1960 caused blocks of that avenue to be transformed. Walking the streets, Evans photographed Third Avenue in transition, transforming bed frames and keepsake chests into street sculpture awaiting sale.
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