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DAY 240 | SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY |
Providing Life’s Essentials
LIVING WITHOUT
Poverty as a topic can present a host of issues for the photographer to work through. Paramount to this topic is deciding what poverty might “look” like. Dirty faces and an unkempt appearance is not enough to convey the social dilemma of poverty. The fact of living in a working-class neighborhood, riding a bus, or walking along a street filled with abandoned buildings does not convey poverty either.
In this photograph by Walker Evans, Bud Fields’ family is photographed in their home. What is revealed is a moment in time when this family finds themselves with ...
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