The Neighborhood Ketchup Ad: Photography and Housing in Unzoned America

• Published in: Aperture no. 209; p. 52
• Main Author: Davis, Tim
• Format: Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: Millerton Aperture, Incorporated 01.12.2012
• Subjects: Billboards; Housing; Landscape architecture; Photographers; Photography; United States > US

In America the landscape changes. And so house and home, the very seats of human stability, are always subject to alteration. Zoning is a relatively new concept here. There was none at all until the rise of the Progressive movement in the teens. So, in 1936, when Walker Evans and Peter Sekaer rolled...