Walker Evans is a very interesting photographer because he captured his pictures in a unique way. He secretly took pictures of regular citizens on the subway. Since it was secretly, people did not pose for the picture and therefore they are in their natural state. Doing this, however, may offend several people caught in the picture so Evans cleverly waited 25 years until he published the pictures. By doing this he did not violate anyone’s privacy. I believe that Evans must have been very motivated to do this because he risked the chance of getting caught every time he took a picture. If he was caught people may have called him a stalker or a pervert. Maybe in the past New Yorkers could have been lenient on people taking picture of them without permission but today if someone was to take a picture of a stranger, the stranger may be hostile and threaten to delete the photos. Fights and arguments in the subways happen commonly in public transportation so the smallest thing can set anyone off. There also seems to be a similarity between the people in Evans’ photography and the people I see on the subways today. Everyone seems to be doing their own thing or talking to one another. The only changes is that the people today are on their smart phones or listening to music.
Hey Brianna, I agree with you completely. I like the fact that Evans waited 25 years to post it, that’s a whole lot of patience knowing you have great photographs. If that was me I would’ve been tempted to show my work. I know that people may get angry if they founded out that there were being photographed, but to some degree I believe they would be fine with it too. You know how we are aware that the government reads our email, taps into our phones, etc ( all of that conspiracy theory stuff haha) , so the same way we are okay with it (or are we?), it’s the same way I believe people then would be.. I hope I made some type of sense and yeah NYC won’t allow that to happen, it will be a brawl and people yelling, ” WORRRRRLDSTAR” haha.