Walker Evans

American Photographer · 1903–1975

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> 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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3rd Avenue Antiques, New York City

Getty Museum · 1962

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59th Street, New York City

Getty Museum · about 1929–1930

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6th Avenue

Getty Museum · 1929

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92 - 5th Ave. Darkroom

Getty Museum · 1930

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[Abandoned Building with Movie Posters]

Getty Museum · 1934; printed later

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A Baptist Grave, Hale County, Alabama

Getty Museum · 1936

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A Bench in the Bronx on Sunday

Getty Museum · 1933

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[A Bill Hook Tool]

Getty Museum · 1955

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Abstraction, New York

Getty Museum · 1929

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[Abstraction with Shadow and Grating Patterns]

Getty Museum · 1930

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A Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama

Getty Museum · 1936

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A Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama / A Baptist Grave, Hale County

Getty Museum · 1936

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A Gourd Tree for Martins, Hale Co., Alabama

Getty Museum · 1936

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A Great Corinthian Town House on the Way to Extinction

Getty Museum · 1951

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[Alabama City Block, Teague Hardware Company]

Getty Museum · 1936

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Alabama Country Fireplace / Fireplace, Burroughs House, Hale County, Alabama / Interior, Gudger Home

Getty Museum · 1936

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Alabama Tenant Farmer's Kitchen Near Moundville

Getty Museum · 1936

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Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama

Getty Museum · negative 1936; print 1950s

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Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

Getty Museum · 1936; printed later

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[All Steel Wood Chisel]

Getty Museum · 1955

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[All-Steel Wood Chisel]

Getty Museum · 1955

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American Legionnaire

Getty Museum · 1935

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A Mule, Hale County, Alabama

Getty Museum · 1936; printed later

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Ancestral Figure. French Sudan.

Getty Museum · 1935

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Ancestral Figure. Head. Gabun. Pahouin (Fan).

Getty Museum · 1935

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Ancestral Figure Representing Hermaphrodite; French Sudan, Region of Bandiagara. Dogon. Front View / Figure of Hermaphrodite. Dogon, Region of Bandiagara.

Getty Museum · 1935

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Ancestral Figure, Southern Cameroon, Border of Gabun. Profile View.

Getty Museum · 1935

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Ancestral Figure. Southern Cameroon, Border of Gabun. Profile View.

Getty Museum · 1935

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[Architectural Study, Construction Site with Welders]

Getty Museum · about 1928–1929

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[Architectural Study, Construction Site with Welders]

Getty Museum · about 1928–1929

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[Architectural Study, International Telephone Building]

Getty Museum · October 1928

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[Architectural Study, International Telephone Building]

Getty Museum · October 1928

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Architectural Study (Lincoln Building Construction?)

Getty Museum · about 1928–1929

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[Architectural Study with Crane and Cables]

Getty Museum · about 1928–1929

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Architectural Study with Crane (Lincoln Building Construction?)

Getty Museum · about 1928–1930

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[Architectural Study with Cranes and Cables]

Getty Museum · about 1928–1929

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[Architectural Study with Cranes and Cables]

Getty Museum · about 1928–1929

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Arkansas Flood Refugee

Getty Museum · 1937

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Armlet. Benin. British Nigeria.

Getty Museum · 1935

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Arrows

Getty Museum · about 1974

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[Auger Drill Bit with a Flared Screwdriver End]

Getty Museum · 1955

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A Woman Shopper

Getty Museum · 1941

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Baby Terrier Crate Opener

Getty Museum · 1955

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Baby Terrier Crate Opener, by Bridgeport Hardware Mfg. Corp., 69 cents

Getty Museum · 1955

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Balcony Spectators

Getty Museum · 1933

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[Balcony Spectators, Detail]

Getty Museum · 1933

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[Banyan Tree]

Getty Museum · 1941; printed later

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Banyan Tree

Getty Museum · 1941

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[Barbershop Facade, Vicksburg, Mississippi]

Getty Museum · 1936

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[Barns on Frank Tengle's Farm]/[Barns on the Ricketts Farm]

Getty Museum · 1936

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[Basement Workshop, Fisherman's House, Biloxi, Mississippi]

Getty Museum · 1945

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Battlefield Monument, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Getty Museum · 1936

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Battlefield Monument, Vicksburg, Mississippi / Ohio Monument, Vicksburg National Military Park

Getty Museum · 1936

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[Beach Houses]

Getty Museum · about 1960s

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[Beach Houses, Old Point, Connecticut]

Getty Museum · about 1960s

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Bed and Stove, Truro, Massachusetts / Truro, Massachusetts

Getty Museum · 1931

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Bedroom Dresser, Shrimp Fisherman's House, Biloxi, Mississippi

Getty Museum · 1945

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Bedroom of Floyd Burroughs' Home, Hale County, Alabama

Getty Museum · 1936

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Bed, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama / Floyd Burrough's Bedroom, Hale County, Alabama

Getty Museum · 1936

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Beggar

Getty Museum · 1933

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