Bethlehem, Graveyard and Steel Mill - Walker Evans 1935 © Walker Evans Archive, 1994,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In this photo, I see many headstones and cement crosses. This shot looks as if it were captured in a graveyard. If you look beyond the gloomy cemetery, you can see a city with multiple chimneys and dozens of power lines. I feel that Walker Evans used landscape photography to create a dismal scene in this photo. It shows a city mainly consisting of graves and worn out crosses. Although it is not the typical photo you see everyday, it does have a subject in the photo that your eyes are immediately drawn to. When you first look at this photo, your attention is brought to the oversized cross that is placed in the bottom left hand portion of the photo. This photo also uses rule of thirds, as well as depth of field. I believe that, in a way, this photo would be considered art.
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