Walker Evans is known to take most of his shots containing people and society, especially during the Great Depression, making him a Social Realist Photographer. His photos capture some of the things that were doing on at that time. Evans shows some of the living conditions of the time through setting and the emotions captured through his subjects.
A lot of his pictures are shot in black and white, which makes viewers focus more on what's going on in the photo rather than the color. (At the time, most photographers shot in black in white anyway. So the fact that they were done in black and white is irrelevant. But it does give us an idea that it was most likely taken in the past). He keeps his photos very basic, where he takes vertical and horizontal photos, to focus more of what is going on in the photo. Evans captures the human expressions and emotions, as well as the living conditions during the time of the Depression that today, shows viewers how it was like and how people felt at the time, such as fatigue and stress from work and the worry in people’s faces. He also has a lot of landscape photo that show the heavy industrialization at that time.
Shows how busy and tired people were.
In this photo, the stairs and the different floors seem to represents how high the industrialization has brought the economy, but only to a limit that is causing the depression.
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