Message from the Interior
Walker Evans		  

He records . . . the naive creative spirit, imperishable and inherent in the ordinary man . . . in an epoch so crass and so corrupt that the only purity of the ordinary individual is unconscious.
—Lincoln Kirstein

Alabama County Fireplace, 1936

It is the particularization of the universal that is important. . . . It is the unique field of the artist and Evans is an artist. It is ourselves we see, ourselves lifted from a parochial setting. We see what we have not heretofore realized, ourselves made worthy in our anonymity.
—William Carlos Williams


Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953

Photographs © Walker Evans Archive
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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