Subways Portraits by Walker Evans

I think Walker Evans clandestine approach to photography was pretty surprising. He took those pictures in a really cool way, makes me wonder if there is any photographers that do that now and days on the subway. He caught people really off guard and in their most vulnerable time. The facial expression of the people on the train still look like the ones we make or even I make today. We never want any eye contact or just stare into space and not acknowledge anyone or anything that is happening. People usually just zone out by putting headphones into their ears and and listen to music not care about anything that’s happening while they’re on the train. Or like me where I put headphones to not hear anyone and ignore everything. Back then people didn’t have portable music players or cellphones so they heard everything that was happening. I’m also surprised no one ever caught or noticed that he was taking pictures of them.