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Brooklyn Bridge
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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- October 28, 1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In 1930 Walker Evans's friend and neighbor, the poet Hart Crane, published his epic poem *The Bridge*. Three of Evans's photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge, including this view, illustrated the deluxe edition of the poem. Made underneath the bridge looking toward the Brooklyn skyline in the distance, this photograph captures a tugboat chugging along its path on the East River. From this Modernist perspective, the inverted triangle of the bridge looms large and black overhead, like a menacing funnel cloud of progress dominating urban life.
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