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Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport, CT

Walker Evans

Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia

Lot Closed

December 21, 07:10 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport, CT

Walker Evans

1903 - 1975

Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia


gelatin silver print, a plate from Walker Evans: Selected Photographs, mounted, signed and editioned '23/75' in pencil on the mount, 1936, printed in 1974

image: 13 by 10 ½ in. (33 by 26.7 cm.)

Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938 (New York, 1973), p. 229, variant

John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 117

Walker Evans: First and Last (New York, 1978), p. 127

Walker Evans at Work (New York, 1982), cover and p. 239

American Photographs (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988), Part One, pl. 2

Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), p. 135, variant

Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 144

Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), pl. 517, variant

Ellen Fleurov, Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1997), p. 150, fig. 52

Jeff L. Rosenheim et al., Walker Evans (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pl. 66, variant

"I bought my first photograph in 1972, just two years before this Walker Evans photograph was printed. Visionary publishers like Double Elephant Press were revisiting the early work of some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Walker Evans: Selected Photographs from 1974 featured many of Evans’s most important images from the 1930s, including this iconic storefront of a photographer’s studio window. Since the beginning of the photography market in the 1970s, portfolio prints have offered a great way to build a collection." - Michael Shapiro 


Michael Shapiro Photographs, originally in San Francisco and now located in Westport, CT, focuses on significant 20th-century, classic, vintage, black and white photography.

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