(TIME) LIFE on the Rails: Walker Evans’s Freight Cars, in Color

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Here, LIFE.com presents a series of color photos of freight cars shot for Fortune in 1957 by the great Walker Evans — pictures that (like so much of Evans’s work) not only evoke a specific time, but capture something elemental about specific things. Evans was a master at finding the ideal way to present the physicality of a given object: a dilapidated house, a famous bridge, a roadside garage or, in the case of the pictures here, a freight car…

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http://time.com/3876943/walker-evans-in-color-the-grit-and-grandeur-of-freight-cars/