[Shuttered Windows of Shoe Factory, Lynn, Massachusetts]
Walker Evans American
Not on view
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.
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![[Shuttered Windows of Shoe Factory, Lynn, Massachusetts], Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut), Gelatin silver print](/Rodan/dist/svg/rolling-0.9s-30px.svg)
