Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Creator

Walker Evans

American Photographer · 1903–1975

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> 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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Date
negative 1935; print later
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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View looking out over houses and a steel mill from a graveyard on a hillside. A cross on top of tombstone is in the foreground.

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