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In this early work by Walker Evans, the young photographer began to establish some of the pictorial keynotes that would become the hallmark of his best work during the 1930s. From behind the rough wood and peeling paint of an old window casing peers the stern visage of Herbert Hoover in a campaign poster designed to win the presidency in 1928. By the time Evans observed this tableau in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, sometime in late 1929 or 1930, Hoover was already suffering the vagaries of public opinion, as his popularity had plummeted in the wake of the stock market crash that would inaugurate the crisis of the Great Depression. . . . - Rachael Arauz, independent curator and art historian Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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