Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Walker Evans was a young man living in New York and seeking his purpose. He had already dropped out of college and gone to Paris, so he began exploring the city with his camera, photographing the Brooklyn Bridge as well as the proliferating skyscrapers, billboards and lighted signs. Around the same time, however, Evans was also traveling to small towns to document Victorian architecture. This study is one of several he made in a house in Truro, Mass., (a few hours away from Boston) that included a view of the kitchen and some houseplants.