True Human Nature

When i walk in the subway i notice that i have spare time all of a sudden due to the fact that i no longer have control of my time. I soon notice that i’m not alone and that everybody in that same train wagon is going through the same. Some have vulnerable expressions and some are just lost in thought. Why? If you look at at Evans photos then you’re going to know why. Many of his photos showed people with naked expressions and in solitude because they didn’t know they were bieng photographed so the portraits give us a “true & pure” sense of the of the person. I don’t think the expressions portrayed had to do anything with The Great Depression because we still see those same expressions today. It’s just human nature to have blank expressions especially when your in a place full of strangers for 30 to 40 minutes on average. That’s just a unique characterstic of public transportation in any part of the world, it’s the only time and place where you can know alot about a stranger without knowing him/her. That’s exactly what Walker Evans did back in the 1930’s.