Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Walker Evans across 6 places, from 1926 to 1935.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Walker Evans is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Walker Evans was documented, and when
1926year
New York Cityattested“After spending a year in Paris in 1926, he returned to the United States to join a literary and art crowd in New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1926year
Parisattested“After spending a year in Paris in 1926, he returned to the United States to join a literary and art crowd in New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1926year
United Statesattested“After spending a year in Paris in 1926, he returned to the United States to join a literary and art crowd in New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1926year
New Yorkattested“After spending a year in Paris in 1926, he returned to the United States to join a literary and art crowd in New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1928year
Ossining (town), New Yorkattested“Evans took up photography in 1928 around the time he was living in Ossining, New York.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1935year
West Virginiaattested“In 1935, Evans spent two months on a fixed-term photographic campaign in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
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In each of these, a source puts Walker Evans and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Walker Evans was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1922year
Phillips Academymentioned“He attended the Loomis Institute and Mercersburg Academy, then graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1922.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1922year
Andover, Massachusettsmentioned“He attended the Loomis Institute and Mercersburg Academy, then graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1922.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1931year
Bostonmentioned“In 1931, he made a photo series of Victorian houses in the Boston vicinity sponsored by Lincoln Kirstein.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
June 1933month
Cubamentioned“In May and June 1933, Evans took photographs in Cuba on assignment for Lippincott, the publisher of Carleton Beals' The Crime of Cuba (1933), a "strident account" of the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1936year
Hale County, Alabamamentioned“In the summer of 1936, while on leave from the FSA, writer James Agee and he were sent by Fortune on assignment to Hale County, Alabama for a story the magazine subsequently opted not to run.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1938year
New York Citymentioned“In 1938, Evans also took his first photographs in the New York City Subway with a camera hidden in his coat.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1938year
New Yorkmentioned“In 1938, Evans also took his first photographs in the New York City Subway with a camera hidden in his coat.”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
1971year
New Yorkmentioned“The first definitive retrospective of his photographs, which "individually evoke an incontrovertible sense of specific places, and collectively a sense of America", according to a press release, was on view at New York's Museum of Modern…”source: Wikipedia: Walker Evans
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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