Photo by Walker Evans
Objectively, this picture is a graveyard, focusing on one large cross-shaped tombstone, with a rural-like city shown in the background. Subjectively, however, I feel that Evans is representing life and death. The city is life, and the cemetery is death. It shows how close both are, and how that death is "just around the corner". The town also seems sort of dull and quite. Life is symbolized as walking through a unitarian town, going to different-but-similar buildings, until turning the corner and reaching the cemetery, and dying. Evans uses a landscape to convey point of view through composition and subject matter. This image could definitely be considered art, because it is symbolic and makes the viewer think.
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