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Subway Portrait by Walker Evans — VisualArtsDB

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Subway Portrait

1941

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 7 5/16 × 7 7/8" (18.6 × 20 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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