Street Scene, New Orleans, Louisiana
negative 1935; print later
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 19.1 × 24.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-728554
This image succeeds as more than a document - it is a portrait of a town. A grocery store anchors the street corner like a surrogate town square. The noisy words of the advertisements, in contrast with the empty ladder, the propped-open screen door, and the quiet of the streets, give a mysterious quality to the image. Evans once aspired to be a writer, so it is no coincidence that many of his photographs feature the words of local signs. Evans probably took this photograph on assignment for the Resettlement Administration, a government-sponsored project that sent photographers into rural communities during the Great Depression to document conditions there. Evans's photograph records the daily life of the place without showing its occupants.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- negative 1935; print later — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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