Art showcase by Brian Inman https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt Walker Evans Research for Presentation en-us 2024-01-25 17:45:55 UTC 2024-03-24 19:21:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f58c.png Roadside Stand- Prices were a large part of life during the great depression. 15 cents may not seem like much, but it was a large amount to spend for some. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862009003 2024-01-25 17:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862009003 Subway portrait- around New York during the great depression, many people did not have much to smile about. As Andrei Codrescu stated, "There is no genuine happieness in any of them.... Black-And-White seems their only possible medium bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862019039 2024-01-25 17:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862019039 The Crime of Cuba- in 1933, Walter Evans took a trip down to Cuba to accompany author Carleton Beals on the aforementioned book. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862023494 2024-01-25 18:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862023494 Yankee Stadium- 1946- a brief look on capatalism from the era, and a view that Walker had on the era bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862041898 2024-01-25 18:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2862041898 Faces- 2 working men in there late teens caught up in the problems finding jobs in the great depression. The image really catches their worry, and sadness. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922159404 2024-03-17 21:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922159404 A Bench in the Bronx on Sunday- Walker Evans has an uncanny ability to capture emotion off the faces of people, and tell a story in the process. The look of the 3 main people in the image all have different meanings, but come together to give a resounding type of frustration at the time. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922160228 2024-03-17 21:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922160228 Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife- This image was captured during one of Walker Evan's trips down to the deep south to document the great depression. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922160623 2024-03-17 21:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922160623 Girl in Back Yard- One of Evan's earlier works, there is no faking the girls emotion. she was confused, and it shows in the image. Surprising that he go the shot with the picture in the background. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922161517 2024-03-17 21:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922161517 Citizen in Downtown Havana- This image makes the viewer have so many questions: why is he staring above, why is he acting like he is being watched from that point, and why the full white suit? No clue, but its cuba. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922163203 2024-03-17 21:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922163203 Main Street of Pennsylvania Town- Not many of Walker Evan's more famous photos come from pa. Had to use the sign to find out vaguely where it was taken, but probable at or close to new Stanton PA. The WW1 monument speaks a lot of the time, and the state the US was in after it. Although, in true Walker Evan's style, there is a main street with a lot of names and advertising in the background. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922164451 2024-03-17 22:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922164451 Minstrel ShowBill Detail- Picture likely was taken in the south, but not deep south, because the image portrays African Americans decently well. My guess on the location is due to the date, as from 1935-1936, Walker Evans spent a lot of time in the south documenting the effects of the great depression. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922166118 2024-03-17 22:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922166118 Part of Phillipsburg- In the early 1900s as a whole, the United States were becoming more and more mechanized. Railroads were booming as much as ever, and factories had workers working long hours in large factories. As Walker Evans tired to capture the real events of the time period, he was bound to capture some of the factories and the infrastructure that kept them going. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922168796 2024-03-17 22:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922168796 Birmingham Steel Mill and Workers Houses- I remember reading of mice and men, and how people would travel in the 30s in order to find work. often, they would act almost as migrant workers, except they were always Americans. Another detail from the book/that time were the hovels they lived in, captured here. The massive, expensive steel plant with the small, cheaply built houses speaks about the priorities of the people up top at the time. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922170840 2024-03-17 22:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922170840 License Photo Studio- this may be one of Walker Evans best well known works. It was taken in the time before his trip to Cuba but after his trip back from Europe. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922171807 2024-03-17 22:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922171807 New York Subway- Walker Evans took this image with a resessed camera that was on his chest in the 40s as a series of real world dread aboard the subway. They were not released until a far later date. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922172904 2024-03-17 22:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922172904 At the end of Walker Evan's life, from 1970 to 1974, he was given a newer style instant polaroid camera, which he used, going around taking several hundred pictures of subjects that he had taken further back in his past. it was his last few works. bpi1_1 https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922174048 2024-03-17 22:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bpi1_1/xibeswgkku5193mt/wish/2922174048