Second Avenue Lunch/ Posed Portraits, New York
about 1933
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 18.3 × 14.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-496643
Taking a cigarette break from the grill, this short-order cook leans with his arm around a seated man also having a smoke just outside the diner. Both men look directly at Walker Evans in a rare posed portrait from Evans's body of work. Though their particular relationship is unknown, they greet the photographer with an easy candor and self-awareness. The sign above their heads, ever present in Evans's photographs, advertises the day's menu choices, all variations on a theme.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1933 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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