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Votive Candles, New York City
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
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- Getty Museum
A heart, a child's arm, and an adult's arm dangle alongside a variety of votive candles for sale, which would be burned by the devoted as part of a prayer for the afflicted body part. Signs for soda, candy, and ice cream at an adjoining shop speak to the eclectic nature of shops along this New York avenue, while lines of laundry hang like flags from the tenements in the distance.
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