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Havana Corner
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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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- 1933
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Virtually entirely cut off at the left edge of the photograph, a man lounges in the doorway of the corner market, a newspaper tucked casually under his arm. Although not even his head is visible, the thin slice of the photograph provides enough information to give a clear sense of his presence. Beside him on the street, a ragged, grimy man holds one sack in his hand and another on his back. With his mouth slightly open, he looks toward the street as if waiting for someone, either a ride or some other rendezvous. While the circumstances of his vigil there remain a mystery, Walker Evans's photograph quietly captures the sense of waiting and anticipation of this scene in Havana, where Evans photographed during May and June of 1933.
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