Humans of New York and Walker Evans

Humans of New York is one of the most popular blogs and spots on Facebook. The photo blog began in 2010 when Brandon Stanton wanted to capture New Yorkers and their stories. Stanton has made thousands of portraits and his blog has some four million fans. Some of the portraits have now been published in a book.

Xinyu Du draws some interesting parallels between the Humans of New York portraits and the work of the great Depression-era photographer Walker Evans. As she rightly notes, Humans of New York focuses on ordinary people, just as the portraits of Evans did. I'm sure that Short would be thrilled to be mentioned in the same breath as Evans.