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Walker Evans, South Street, New York
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Walker Evans

South Street, New York

1932

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
14.2 × 16.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-735269

Clearly interested in showing the human condition, Walker Evans photographed this assembly of down-and-out men lounging and sleeping in doorways on South Street in lower Manhattan. Their weary bodies are strewn across the lower half of the frame like discarded props on a stage. The advertisement for the St. George Hotel pool, posted at left and featuring a bathing beauty, was probably not meant to draw in any of these denizens of the street. A keen observer of detail, Evans was aware of the irony that the juxtaposition presented.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • 1932 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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