Main Street, Ossining, New York (Primary Title)
Walker Evans, American, 1903 - 1975 (Artist)
Walker Evans lived among the American expatriate literary community in Paris before settling in New York in 1928. There he transferred his more poetic impulses into a visual medium, teaching himself to use a camera. Early in his career, Evans blended the formalism of European modernism with a deep interest in documentary photography of the commonplace. His photographs often interject humor and irony into the fleeting moments of daily life as in Main Street, Ossining, New York.
Sherritt Art Purchase Fund
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