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Picks

I know something about wine, don’t get me wrong. But when I go to a restaurant, I almost always ask for a recommendation. I figure the waiter knows their stock better than I do. And I’ve found it’s the fastest route to a happy outcome. So with that in mind, here are some of our top photo-t-shirt picks.

 

Oh, the Humanity

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Walker Evans. Floyd Burroughs. 1936. (Library of Congress.)

If you’re looking for a portrait, a picture of another human that cuts across time and place, it would be hard to make a better choice than this photograph by Walker Evans.

Evans and the writer James Agee were commissioned by Fortune Magazine to document the lives of sharecropper families in the rural South during the dustbowl. The Burroughs family was one of three families featured in the book that ensued, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

A portrait like this only comes from an investment of time that builds a connection between the photographer and the person photographed. It’s a moment of personal revelation, a glimpse of vulnerable honesty.

This is why Evans’ photograph is so admired. And this is why it’s one of the most powerful images in the Loveheadhouse collection. It reminds us that our lives are all about our human connections.

 
Doug Lowell