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A Bench in the Bronx on Sunday
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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- 1933
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- f25dfb4d-2555-4f25-bb77-8d75d94407ca
Physically together yet worlds apart, the occupants of this public park bench look behind and ahead, but not, it seems, *at* one another. The woman on the right appears to be engaged with someone near her, but her face is revealed only by a slim profile, not enough to indicate the focus of her attention. Bundled in overcoats and gloves, the men seem least aware of the photographer. Walker Evans in turn regarded them less as individuals than as representatives of the human condition.
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