New Orleans Vicinity
Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975
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.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
5 7/8 × 5 3/16" (15 × 13.1 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
376.2015
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