Live Auction 2076Important Photographs From a Private American Collection
Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Lot 29 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

Closed17 October 2007

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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.)