“A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload,” at the International Center of Photography, includes Walker Evans’s “Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia, 1936.”
The visual onslaught of an endless Instagram feed is exhausting, but it’s not without precedent. During the Great Depression, Walker Evans discovered that the storefront window of one photo studio was displaying a staggering two hundred and twenty-five portraits, as seen in “Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia, 1936” (above). The work is on view in the exhibition “A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload,” at the International Center of Photography (through May 2).
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