Walker Evans’s Typology of the American Worker – The New Yorker

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Walker Evans’s Typology of the American Worker

In the summer of 1946, on assignment for Fortune magazine, Evans spent an afternoon at an intersection in downtown Detroit, photographing passersby.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/walker-evanss-typology-of-the-american-worker?mbid=rss

the photographs Evans took in Detroit in July of 1946, when, on assignment for Fortune magazine, he spent an afternoon at a downtown intersection, shooting passersby with a Rolleiflex camera held at waist level