Subway Spy.

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      Mentions the influence of documentary photographer Walker Evans in photographing passengers on New York's subway system in the 1930s. Evan's disdain for American commercialism and his frustration with efforts to become a serious writer; Reference to how Evans would take pictures of passengers unawares by hiding his camera; How he published a book filled with 89 subway photographs called 'Many Are Called'; Photographs featured at the Museum of the City of New York; Articles accompanying the photos which suggest that Evans felt like a spy when taking some of his pictures.