Walker Evans

African Sculpture

1935

Gelatin silver print

On view MoMA, Floor 5, 520 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions 18 5/16 × 7 3/4" (46.5 × 19.7 cm)
Credit Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Object number 384.1941
Department Photography

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Walker Evans

Walker Evans

American, 1903–1975 368 works online

In a review of Walker Evans’s first career retrospective , critic Hilton Kramer noted, “Our experience of an Evans photograph may begin with an admiration for its design and a delight in its subject; it ends, however, with an overwhelming sense of the photographer’s own unmistakable temperament.

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