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October 10, 2011
American Suburb X has an album of Walker Evans' Subway Photographs that were taken between 1938-1941 on their Facebook page.
Walker Evans, Subway, from Many are Called 1966
These were taken between 1938-1941. Evans travelled on the subway with a miniature Contax camera concealed inside his coat connected by a long lead to a shutter release that nestled just inside his sleeve. Daily he snapped the people who sat opposite him on the subway, waiting patiently for a revealing moment of reverie or boredom or, on one or two occasions, the onset of sleep.
Evans was able to capture his subjects totally unawares.Many appear to in transit between work and home, on their way to the movies, reading the paper in their hands (always a tabloid, never a brodasheet — fitting, for the the tabloid was invented to accommodate the confines of the packed subway carriage.
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