The Great Depression

Photographer: Walker Evans

Picture: A tenant on East Sixty-first Street, probably between First and Second avenues.

I chose this picture out of all the others pictures that Evans took because I think that it shows the most about how the Great Depression was. Walker Evan's goal was to capture what people saw everyday in regular neighborhoods during the Great Depression and he did exactly that. From this picture I see a man that, from the way he is dressed, seems to usually be a pretty happy guy that is now "depressed". Instead of being at work in the middle of the day he is sitting in front of a house on the steps all alone and doing nothing. From what we have learned about the Great Depression this picture is right on. It sums up exactly how many people had been during that time and he did it as simply as possible.