Walter Evans's Depression

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Walter Evans’s depiction of life and the people during the Depression of the 1930s is isolated, depressed, but also loving. For instance, in the photo of Bud Fields and his family, the picture is portrayed as a depressed and isolated family. The clothes look dirty and ragged and unclean. Their facial expressions show sadness and defeat. It looks as though there is no hope in their eyes. The only one who does not look depressed is the little boy in his father's lap. He is too young to know what is going on and he can not tell that there is a terrible depression going on. Also, the family is in a room with only one bed in it, which may be because it is only a one room home. Looking more closely, none of the family members have shoes on except

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