Walker Evans Street Photograph

Shop this Walker Evans street photograph for sale. The photograph formally cataloged as “Sidewalk Scene with Pedestrians and Restaurant Sign, Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania July 1935” in the Library of Congress. This silver print photograph is dated to the late 1980s-circa late 20th century. This Walker Evans silver print photograph retains a sticker on the reverse of the sheet labeled “REPRODUCED FROM THE COLLECTIONS/ OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS” and a handwritten pencil catalog number USF-342-T01-989.

This black and white photograph was part of Evans’s series of photographs for the Farm Security Administration between the years of 1935–1938 and has a known variant “Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania.” Walker Evans himself was a prolific WPA (Works Progress Administration),Era American Photographer Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist known for his work for the (FSA) Farm Security Administration that documented the effects of the Great Depression on American Life and society. Many of Evans’s photographs taken during the FSA period were produced in the large-format, 8×10-inch photograph format as such as this Walker Evans photograph for sale.

The photograph measures 10 x 8 inches. The image measures 9 x 7.25 inches.

The photograph displays imperfections on the white margin edge—the reverse of the sheet with a pencil catalog number and a white sticker label.