Photo History: Walker Evans's Typology of the American Worker
In 1946, Walker Evans spent an afternoon at a downtown Detroit intersection shooting passersby with a Rolleiflex camera held at waist level. The images, which later ran in Fortune magazine, formed a
typology of the American worker, notes the New Yorker: They invite the viewer to stare carefully, make comparisons, …
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