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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Houses and Billboards in Atlanta, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962
credited, titled and dated on affixed Museum of Modern Art 'American Photographs' press label dated '1962', stamped PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT/The Museum of Modern Art' and variously numbered in pencil (verso)
image: 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (27.2 x 34.8 cm.)
sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.7 cm.)

Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part I, pl. 47.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 163.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 119.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 52.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1991, p. 296.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 133.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 257, p. 205.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 60.
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Lot Essay

The present lot is a print made for publicity related to the second edition of American Photographs published in 1962, originally published on the occasion of the exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1938. Throughout the history of the Museum’s Photography Department, primarily from the 1930s through the 1970s, photographers contributing works to exhibitions would oftentimes provide the Museum with multiple prints of the works selected for exhibition. These additional prints would be used for various exhibition-related affairs, most often for being sent to the press for publicity. Such prints were sometimes provided by the photographer or printed at the Museum from original negatives.

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