[Lunchroom Window, New York]

Walker Evans

1929 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

As early as the 1870s, the quick-lunch counter had become commonplace in New York City. With the introduction and success of the coin-operated automat in the 1910s, lunch and coffee could be had in a New York minute. Walker Evans discovered this trio of natty, pre-stock market crash consumers near Grand Central terminal at a lunchroom at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 44th Street.

Artist: Walker Evans
Date: 1929
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gift of Arnold H. Crane, 1971

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