Landscape: Activity 1

Bethlehem, Graveyard and Steel Mill - Walker Evans 1935 © Walker Evans Archive, 1994,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View the image by Walker Evans on this page and describe what you can actually see (objective analysis) and what you think the image is about (subjective analysis).

Discuss how effective Walker Evans has been in using a landscape image to communicate a point of view. Can this photograph be considered as Art? Give two reasons to support your answer.

So what you actually can see is some buildings in the background, they look like some type of factories. and then close-up is a graveyard/cemetery. I'm not really sure what the pictures meaning is or what the photographer was trying to represent in the photo but maybe its very literal and there are a lot of deaths or were a lot of deaths caused by these factories. Or maybe it is saying that if you are living you are working in these man made factories that have taken over most of what was left of nature, and when you're dead you can rest in what is actually left of nature in the grass or weeds. I say yes, this is definitely considered art, its very dreary and beautiful at the same time. I feel like almost anything can be considered art, if someone can be influenced or inspired or in awe and find their own meaning for it than I feel like it is art.