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Subway Portrait by Walker Evans — VisualArtsDB

Subway Portrait

Subway Portrait

1938

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 4 13/16 x 5 15/16 in. (12.22 x 15.08 cm) (image) 11 3/16 x 8 7/16 in. (28.42 x 21.43 cm) (mount)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Walker Evans, 1938