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| Walker Evans Girl on Fulton Street, New York 1929 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"She told him about her life before she married Brendan. About the two houses exactly alike, standing side by side in the town where she grew up. In front of them was a deep ditch called Dye Creek because it used to run water colored by the dye from the knitting factory. Behind them was a wild meadow where girls were not supposed to go. One was where she lived with her father – in the other lived her grandmother and her Aunt Beatrice and her Cousin Polly."
– from the story Post and Beam by Alice Munro
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| Walker Evans Stamped-Tin Relic 1929 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Gothic Gate-Cottage near Poughkeepsie, New York 1931 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"Some people who had a place where we all used to go, on Bowen Island. The Delaneys. I thought you might have heard of them. Well. There were various goings-on. That's what I meant when I said I used to be a devil. Adventures. Well. It looked like adventures, but it was all according to script, if you know what I mean. So not so much of an adventure, actually."
– from the story What is Remembered by Alice Munro
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| Walker Evans Farm Interior, New York State 1931 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Driver's License Photo Studio, New York 1934 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania 1935 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"They stopped in a wide, ill-defined space where some gravel had been laid down. On one side was a barn or implement shed, tin-covered, and over to one side of it, on the edge of a cornfield, an abandoned farmhouse from which most of the bricks had been removed, showing dark wooden walls. The house inhabited nowadays was a trailer, nicely fixed up with a deck and an awning, and a flower garden behind what looked like a toy fence. The trailer and its garden looked proper and tidy, while the rest of the property was littered with things that might have a purpose or might just be left around to rust and rot."
– from the story Floating Bridge by Alice Munro
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| Walker Evans Part of Phillipsburg, New Jersey 1935 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Main street of Pennsylvania town 1935 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans New Orleans, Louisiana 1935 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Street Scene, New Orleans 1935 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"When we got off the streetcar at last we had to walk up a steep hill, trying awkwardly to share the weight of the suitcase. The houses were not quite all the same, though at first they looked like it. Some of the roofs came down over the walls like caps, or else the whole second story was like a roof, and covered in shingles. The shingles were dark green or maroon or brown. The porches came to within a few feet of the sidewalk, and the spaces between the houses seemed narrow enough for people to reach out the side windows and shake hands."
– from the story Queenie by Alice Munro
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| Walker Evans New Orleans Boarding House 1935 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Birmingham Boarding House 1936 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"A few properties seemed to have been kept up as well as possible by the people who had moved into them when they were new – people who hadn't had the money or perhaps hadn't felt the need to move on to someplace better."
– from the story The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro
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| Walker Evans Church Interior, Alabama 1936 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Walker Evans Vicksburg Battlefield Monument 1936 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
– quoted passages are all drawn from a single volume of Alice Munro's stories – Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001). This would be my second-favorite story collection by Alice Munro. The long-time first-favorite is The Beggar Maid, originally published in 1978 under the title, Who Do You Think You Are?