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Walker Evans

View of Easton, Pennsylvania, 1936

Description

Maker

  • Walker Evans, 1903-1975, American
  • Jim Dow, b. 26 July 1942, American, printer, (RISD BFA 1965, Graphic Design; MFA 1968, Photography)

Title

View of Easton, Pennsylvania

Year

1936

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silver print,
  • silver gelatin print

Dimensions

Image/sheet: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on mount: Walker Evans

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of James Dow

Object Number

71.043.40

Projects & Publications

Publications

RISD STEAM/Discovery Through Juxtaposition

Read Online

America in View

Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

By compressing distance and flattening perspective, Walker Evans collapses the two cityscapes of Easton, Pennsylvania, and Phillipsburg, New Jersey, into one plane. Evans’s aesthetically neutral style seems to depict the world without the intervention of the photographer’s point of view. At the same time, he forces the details of every building and smokestack to the surface of the image, making the plight of the cities and their inhabitants—the Depression had crippled the shipping and manufacturing industries that were the lifeblood of both towns—impossible to ignore.

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