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Photo History: Walker Evans's Typology of the American Worker

By David Schonauer   Friday April 29, 2016

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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