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Trailer in Camp, Sarasota
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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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- 1941
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
In the 1940s, Sarasota was one of few Florida towns that allowed trailers and provided them with running water and electrical hook-ups. The community, whose population was then a mere 8,000, also built laundries and social halls for the seasonal visitor. Walker Evans made this photograph while on a six-week assignment in Florida. He was hired to illustrate the 1942 publication *The Mangrove Coast: The Story of the West Coast of Florida,*a comprehensive book detailing the geology of the region and the legends of its explorers. Most of the pictures depict the habits of what Evans called "winter resorters," retirees who seasonally descended upon the southern vacationland. Evans was fascinated by people's homes, often photographing their interiors and exteriors. Tenements in the Deep South, Gothic Revival cottages in the north, and even mass-produced trailers like this--all were of deep interest to him.
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