Hagstrom’s Map of New York Subways, undated (but looks to be from the 1940s)

Walker Evans     Subway Portrait, New York City     c.1940

“As it happens, you don’t see among them the face of a judge or a senator or a bank president. What you do see is at once sobering, startling, and obvious: these are the ladies and gentlemen of the jury.”  –Walker Evans, “The Unposed Portrait,” 1962, on the subjects of his subway portraits, which were not posed and had all been taken with a hidden camera.

Photos by Christopher Forsyth Of The Montreal Metro That Prove Subways Can Be Beautiful

Brooklyn bound

Chiswick