Walker Evans
For this assignment, I chose to imitate the photo style of Walker Evans. Evans did a series of photographs where he had a hidden camera in his jacket that he took photos of people on the subway with. He did this in a way that they would never know their photo was being taken, and he could capture raw emotion. The photo that I am wanted to imitate was taken between the period of 1938-1942. This was in the earlier period of the years we were assigned for this week.
My Imitations:
In order to achieve this style of the commuter not knowing I was photographing them, I held my camera in my lap and shot up at them. I rode the bus around campus in order to get the right shot. I shot at 0.5 sec in order to get the motion blur in the windows. Making this photo black and white really makes it seem like its an older photo, but the subject and the other passenger having cellphones show that it is a modern take on Evans work. Overall, this is the best photo because it shows what people really do on the bus and how they have their emotions. Their emotions are now on the screen rather than on their face. I am most happy with this photo.
I really like these photos too, I think that these subjects really show their emotions while they’re on their commute, I just think the first shot matches Evans style more. There are also more people in the other shot. I like these ones because the subjects are showing emotions on their faces too. It is crazy how everyone just sits on their phone in silence on the bus now.
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