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A Woman Shopper
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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- 1941
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 53e76ccc-7dd4-41d9-bdab-16e2b54ea091
"You want [your work] to spring from life," declared Walker Evans in a 1971 interview. For Evans, that meant finding his subjects on the street: "I found I wanted to get a type, a 'snapshot' of a fellow on the waterfront, or a stenographer at lunch." In this photograph he captured a remarkably self-confident shopper. The woman, in a polka-dot dress, dark hat, and white gloves, looks squarely into Evans's camera. Though a good deal of her face is shaded by the hat, her serious, down-turned mouth conveys a sense that the photographer was not of interest or amusement to her.
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