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Main street, Macon, Georgia: photo by Walker Evans, March 1936
They have a list of 10
plus 500 minor ones
they make plans & leave in the night
and have money to get there
though few
if any
........are privately wealthy.
A truck pulled up in the night.
They got out, their eyes glowed like amber
amber as old as the hills they sped across.
What crime is not counter-crime?
What men are not bossed?
When will they again come
to strange shores to gratify their national memories?
Not even helpless abominable criminals
can escape them --
I am glad I am not famous,
this time would be bad for that.
Still we all have cause for terror.
Edward Dorn: The Top List, from The Newly Fallen (1961)
Johnstown housing, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, July 1935
Pittsburgh housing, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, December 1935
Houses and steel mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, November 1935
View of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, November 1935
Houses, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, November 1935
Graveyard, houses and steel mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, November 1935
Scott's Run mining camps near Morgantown, West Virginia: photo by Walker Evans, July 1935
Scott's Run mining camps near Morgantown, West Virginia. Company houses: photo by Walker Evans, July 1935
Negro house, New Orleans, Louisiana: photo by Walker Evans, January 1936
Negro street, New Orleans: photo by Walker Evans, December 1935
House fronts, 61st Street, between First and Third Avenues, New York, New York: photo by Walker Evans, Summer 1938
Miners' houses near Birmingham, Alabama: photo by Walker Evans, December 1935
Middle class houses of the town. Birmingham, Alabama: photo by Walker Evans, March 1936
Steelmill workers' company and outhouses. Republic Steel Company, Birmingham, Alabama: photo by Walker Evans, March 1936
Photos from Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress
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