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Brooklyn Bridge

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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: October 28, 1929
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

This is perhaps Walker Evans's most classic view of the Brooklyn Bridge. It shows the famous arches built of New York limestone and Maine granite, dissected by a jumble of intersecting cables. A solitary pedestrian appears as a mere white speck against the towering structure. Built between 1869 and 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was at the time the world's largest suspension bridge and the first to use steel as cable wire. A symbol of progress in the Industrial Age, it also became a favorite motif for modern painters and photographers.

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