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I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject. — Walker Evans

Interview · Magazine

I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject.

Walker Evans
1974
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1974
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Walker Evans
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Evans, Walker. Interviewed by Yale Alumni Magazine. 1974.

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