Joe’s Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1935 (printed 1971)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (11.4 × 16.5 cm)
Support: 17 1/2 × 14 3/8 in. (44.5 × 36.5 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 3/8 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.6 × 1.9 cm)
Support: 17 1/2 × 14 3/8 in. (44.5 × 36.5 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 3/8 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.6 × 1.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Ives Family in memory of Norman S. and Constance T. Ives, 2016
Object number2016.21.6
DescriptionForeground includes grass and soil, behind which are numerous junked cars. Middle ground to background is an empty field with a row of trees at the back and a strip of sky above.eMuseum Notes
Walker
Evans made a series of photographs in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and its
envirions in 1935, largely focusing on the steel industry and worker housing
and producing iconic images including “American Legionnarie,” “Window Display,
Bethlehem,” and especially “Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem.” He
also photographed in the nearby steel town of Easton. “Joe’s Auto Graveyard”
appears to have been located between the two towns. Evans may have been
attracted to the jumble of cars or have been making a comment on the rapidly
accumulating detritus of the Industrial Revolution.
On View
Not on viewWalker Evans
1936 (printed later)
Walker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)