Restaurant Window, South Carolina
Peter Sekaer American, born Denmark
Not on view
To visualize the toll of the Great Depression, Sekaer sought out people at the margins of American life. Here, he photographs through the window of a segregated restaurant in South Carolina, exchanging glances with a woman inside. The commercial graphics disrupting her view would have appealed to Sekaer, a former sign painter. Yet these compositional impediments signal a greater social barrier between artist and subject, which the photograph seeks to reveal.
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