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[Abstraction with Shadow and Grating Patterns]
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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- 1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 01b3b75e-a1ec-47da-abee-e622fc6eacd4
What the image shows
A close-up view of a textured wall with a geometric pattern.
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View of shadows on window grating
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