Photographs · 1968–1982
The American social landscape
Walt photographed in black and white for more than forty years — ordinary places, ordinary light, ordinary people doing very little. He printed each image the same way: a small gelatin-silver print floating on a wide sheet. "Its literalness," he wrote, "is perhaps photography's greatest strength."
Prints shown courtesy of the Joseph Bellows Gallery. Each is a gelatin silver print, five by eight inches on an eleven-by-fourteen-inch sheet. Higher-resolution scans from the family or the estate can replace these, and more of his work — the commune photographs at the Library of Congress, the later three-volume set — can be added here.