New Orleans Vicinity

Walker Evans

1935

A gelatin silver print photograph of a young boy made by Walker Evans in 1935, intended as a quiet, unsentimental record of everyday life in the American South.

The close, cropped framing and hard sunlight sculpt the boy’s face while his worn cap and shirt sit against a plain stucco wall, giving the picture an intimate, resolute stillness.

This unadorned portrait exemplifies Evans’s documentary method and helped establish a modern photographic language that treats ordinary people and vernacular scenes as central subjects of cultural history.

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Exhibitions

Walker Evans: Photographs of Nineteenth-Century Houses

1933

Walker Evans: American Photographs

1938

Walker Evans: American Photographs

1962

Walker Evans: American Photographs

1989