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The guard is down and the mask is off: even more than when in lone bedrooms (where there are mirrors). People's faces are in naked repose down in the subway. - Walker Evans
Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Subway Portrait, New York, c. 1938-1941
Details
Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Subway Portrait, New York, c. 1938-1941
gelatin silver print
numbered '3' in an unknown hand in pencil (in the margin); numbered 'VI 183' in an unknown hand in pencil and Lunn Gallery stamp (on the verso)
5 3/8 x 7½in. (13.7 x 19 cm.)
Subway Portrait, New York, c. 1938-1941
gelatin silver print
numbered '3' in an unknown hand in pencil (in the margin); numbered 'VI 183' in an unknown hand in pencil and Lunn Gallery stamp (on the verso)
5 3/8 x 7½in. (13.7 x 19 cm.)
Literature
Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, cat. no. 794, p. 235