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New York City Street Corner
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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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- 1929
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
This bird's-eye view of a Manhattan street corner turns normal perspective on its head. Two pedestrians approach the curb, greeted by the long shadow of someone crossing in the other direction. The street is cast in deep shadow, as though the edge of the earth encroaches upon the figures. This image was published in 1929 in *Hound and Horn*, a literary journal that Lincoln Kirstein founded while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University. Walker Evans was a frequent contributor.
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