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Fruit and Vegetable Cart

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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: about 1929
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

*LARGE RIPE BANANAS, FANCY BERRIES*, *FANCY APPLES* beckon the hand-lettered signs attached to this itinerant fruit wagon. Crates are piled haphazardly toward the back, and heads of lettuce threaten to spill over the front of the cart. A man sits on the steps behind, nearly invisible amidst the visual jumble of the traveling market. Walker Evans captured a scene of urban living at once vital in its detail of everyday usefulness and fleeting in its recording of a way of life soon to give way to supermarkets and urbanization.

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