Street
Scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 1935
Gelatin silver print
20.7 x 25.4 cm (8-3/16 x 10 in.)
84.XM.129.8
Evans's most often-reproduced body of work was
created in a three-year creative explosion between the summer of 1935 and the
summer of 1938. Toward the end of 1935, he visited Louisiana on assignment for
the Farm Security Administra- tion, and it was there that he made this picture.
Although it has a documentary appearance, the photograph owes more to French art
than might at first be ex- pected. Evans had visited France and respected its
cultural life. Tristan Tzara described the power of French Dadaism to transform
incongruous elements into an "unexpected, homogeneous cohesion as soon as they
take place in a newly created ensemble." Evans shared this conviction with the
artists of Dada.
(WALKER EVANS related to-->> 168, 169,
174, Japanese)
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