Lunchroom Buddies, New York City (Primary Title)
Walker Evans, American, 1903 – 1975 (Artist)
Walker Evans grew up in a wealthy family, attending prestigious East Coast schools and later living among the American expatriate literary community in Paris. After he returned to New York in 1926, he began his career in photography, blending the formalism of European modernism with a deep interest in documentary photography of the everyday. In Lunchroom Buddies, New York City, the railing at the lower center of the photograph visually links the two men by echoing the slanted posture and embrace of the man in white. The photograph embodies a sense of shared humanity between the two subjects, a common attribute of Evans’s images made during the Great Depression.
Sherritt Art Purchase Fund
The Likeness of Labor, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, October 17, 2015 - April 10, 2016
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