Image

Walker Evans

Detail from Penny Picture Display Window, Savannah, Georgia

Description

Maker

Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

Title

Detail from Penny Picture Display Window, Savannah, Georgia

Year

1936

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

silver print

Dimensions

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

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on mount:Walker Evans

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of James Dow

Object Number

71.043.28

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection
Jul 27, 2018 – Jan 20, 2019

Label copy

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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Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)
Detail from Penny Picture Display Window, Savannah, Georgia, 1936
Gelatin silver print
50.3 x 38.1 cm (19 13/16 x 15 inches) (mount)
Gift of James Dow 71.043.28

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