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Max Kozloff's The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900 - Picture perfect by Guy Lane
From the website: In the winter of 1938, Walker Evans began a series of candid portraits of passengers on the New York subway. His overcoat protected him against the cold and, more importantly, concealed the 35mm Contax strapped to his chest. The camera had been painted matt black and was operated by a shutter release cable that ran down his right sleeve. Evans was not averse to tricks and decoys to get a picture; even so, the level of subterfuge was unusual. But perhaps it was the only way to capture the slack-jawed and vacant moments when his fellow commuters' faces were in what he described as "naked repose" when "the guard is down and the mask is off".
