Main Street Block, Selma, Alabama, 1936

Name: WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Brand: Main Street Block, Selma, Alabama, 1936
Price: 5500.00 USD
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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Main Street Block, Selma, Alabama, 1936

Price Realised USD 6,875

WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Main Street Block, Selma, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1988 by the Library of Congress
stamped 'REPRODUCTION FROM THE COLLECTIONS/ OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS', numbered 'II/30' and variously otherwise numbered in pencil (verso)
image: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (19 x 23.4 cm.)
sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 in. (20.9 x 25.3 cm.)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988.

Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part II, pl. 30.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 203.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 57.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 277, p. 220.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 79.

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Lot Essay

This work was printed in preparation for the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Walker Evans: American Photographs published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1988.