subway portraits

I am personally not interested in taking pictures in the subway because I don’t want to get hurt by some individual who might be interested in my phone or ipod and whatnot.  While I might try to take pictures on the subway for fun ( probably wanting to take pictures of rats ), I think Walker was trying to capture the gloominess on people’s face in that particular era. When you think about it , the subway is one of those places where even though there is a lot people, you get a sense of privacy because whether you are smiling, crying, or look really mad, no one will dare ask you any question. I think that Walker was well aware of that, and I noticed that he only took pictures of adults on the subway maybe because it was the only place they could actually think seriously without having to worry their kids, and so on. Walker’s approach on photography is really interesting to me in a sense that I think that he wanted to show people’s various expression in the subway, because he knew that the depression was going to be over one day anyways and people would probably have different facial expressions. Even though Walker took another approach on photography, the fact that he sneakingly took the pictures is a little too much…

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