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Architectural Study (Lincoln Building Construction?)
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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1928–1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 4badf17c-3d91-4349-acf8-01013ff5975f
The bright sun delineates every architectural detail in this claustrophobic view of the urban landscape. Construction cranes and pulleys cut across the right corner of the photograph, revealing the ever-changing face of Manhattan. A faint sliver of sky attempts vainly to insinuate its presence against the solid black shaft of architecture at left. The small scale of the contact print--about two-and-one-half inches square--contributes to the sense of enclosure in the scene.
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