Brooklyn Bridge 

Walker Evans is an American photographer who also worked as a writer and editor for the magazines Time and Fortune. He first took up photography in Paris, where he had gone to study literature. On his return to the United States in 1927 he began using a small 35-millimeter film camera—a type that had only just been invented—to take photographs of New York City’s streets, complete with the many skyscrapers then under construction as the city transformed itself into the world’s economic capital. This shot is one from a series of photographs taken from different angles of the Brooklyn Bridge. The combination of the gigantic bridge’s dynamic appearance with the skyscrapers in the distance emphasizes the image’s extreme depth. The photograph is also symbolic of a change that was occurring in landscapes, from an age of horizontal compositions to more vertical ones that were better suited to the industrializing societies of the Machine Age.
(KIMURA Eriko)