Walker Evans: Xenophobia


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Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Main street, Morgantown, West Virginia: photo by Walker Evans, March 1936 





Learning to distrust
what's coming
your way
if it's not from around here
incurious
in the event
of questions uninvited
and uneasy 
in any case




Image, Source: digital file from original neg.

Legionnaire, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: photo by Walker Evans, November 1935
Photos from Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress

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