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Walker Evans

Negro Barber Shop Interior, Atlanta

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Walker Evans

1903 - 1975


Negro Barber Shop Interior, Atlanta

gelatin silver print

image: 7 ½ by 9 ⅜ in. (19.1 by 23.8 cm.)

Executed in 1936.

PhotoWest Gallery, San Diego

Acquired from the above circa 1989-90 by the present owner

Walker Evans, American Photographs Part One, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1938, pl. 6

Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, New York 1973, pl. 170

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, New Haven 1981, p. 42, variant

Walker Evans, American Photographs Part One, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1988, pl. 6

Gilles Mora and John Hill, Walker Evans: The Hunrgy Eye, New York 1993, p. 144

Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum 1995, no. 497

Jeff L. Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman, Walker Evans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000, pl. 82

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2000, p. 61

Christian A. Peterson, Walker Evans, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2003, pl. 56, p. 60

John Hill and Alan Trachtenberg, Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary, Selections from Evans' work for the U. S. Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1937, Washington, D. C. 2006, p. 124

Svetlana Alpers, Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch, Princeton 2020, pl. 85