[Shuttered Windows of Shoe Factory, Lynn, Massachusetts]
In the spring of 1931, Evans joined the cultural impresario Lincoln Kirstein and the architecture critic John Brooks Wheelwright on a project to document Victorian houses in Massachusetts. During their campaign, they hit upon the idea of also photographing nineteenth-century factory buildings alongside domestic architecture. This approach produced a more balanced vision of the typical American city. In this close-cropped view, the syncopated visual rhythm created by the shuttered windows presents a dynamic counterpart to the decorative patterns inherent in Victorian architecture.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Shuttered Windows of Shoe Factory, Lynn, Massachusetts]
- Artist: Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
- Date: 1931
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 10.5 x 16.3 cm. (4 1/8 x 6 7/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1951
- Object Number: 51.565.27
- Rights and Reproduction: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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