42nd Street
The Ford Motor Company Collection includes another version of this image, in which Evans cropped out the stairs at the right. The severely cropped print is more a portrait of the woman, and it allows the viewer leisure to take in the fullness of her presence. This print, however, retains the ambiguity of the moment when the uniformed man descended the stairs.
Artwork Details
- Title: 42nd Street
- Artist: Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
- Date: 1929
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 16.2 x 24.0 cm (6 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.1100.68
- Rights and Reproduction: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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