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Walker Evans

Detail from Penny Picture Display Window, Savannah, Georgia, 1936

Description

Maker

Title

Detail from Penny Picture Display Window, Savannah, Georgia

Year

1936

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

50.3 x 38.1 cm (19 13/16 x 15 inches) (mount)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on mount:Walker Evans

Type

Credit

Gift of James Dow

Object Number

71.043.28

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection

July 27, 2018 - January 20, 2019

The mania for collecting photographs that began in the 1800s continues today through “liking” friends’ and celebrities’ Instagram posts. In the 1900s, Walker Evans and Henry Horenstein captured glimpses of the ways communities picture themselves. Evans’s photo documents pictures displayed in the window of a Depression-era studio photographer, enticing other people to take a look and perhaps sit for their own portrait.

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