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As it happens, you don't see among them [the people on the subway] 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
Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Subway Portrait, 1938
Details
Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Subway Portrait, 1938
gelatin silver print
numbered 'VI 34' in an unknown hand in pencil and Lunn Archive stamp (on the verso)
7 3/8 x 9¾in. (18.8 x 24.7 cm.)
Subway Portrait, 1938
gelatin silver print
numbered 'VI 34' in an unknown hand in pencil and Lunn Archive stamp (on the verso)
7 3/8 x 9¾in. (18.8 x 24.7 cm.)
Literature
Evans, Many Are Called, Houghton Mifflin, 1966, pl. 18, variant cropping; Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, cat. no. 630, p. 198