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Subway Portrait by Walker Evans — VisualArtsDB

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Subway Portrait

1941

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 6 15/16 × 7 1/2" (17.6 × 19.1 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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View of Morgantown, West Virginia

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