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New York City: Lincoln Building Construction, 42nd and Park Avenue
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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1928–1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c3547752-eb46-4f89-9d91-2f926a168b18
From the Getty Museum record
The verticality of this print emphasizes the upward progress of the Lincoln Building under construction. Rather than the fifty-three story, one million square-foot building itself, the crane used in its construction is the focal point of this picture. Smaller cranes anchor the central axis of the composition, whose subject is not so much the specific building once called an "aristocrat among New York office buildings" as it is the mechanics of its erection. Walker Evans made at least half a dozen views of this particular construction site.
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