Instant Collage

Walker Evans portrays Instant College through his piece called A Miner's Home Vicinity Morgantown, West Virginia. He created a new way to take photographs called a calotype. In other words, Walker Evans printed pictures from the negative. His medium of choice was instant collage. He believed that the idea of capturing a picture was an instant collage. Walker Evans enjoyed capturing pictures of “real America”. This was the concept and context of his instant collages. This is shown through his artwork A Miner's Home Vicinity Morgantown, West Virginia. It captures the true image of a miner's home.