42nd Street

Walker Evans

1929 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

The Ford Motor Company Collection includes another version of this image, in which Evans cropped out the stairs at the right. The severely cropped print is more a portrait of the woman, and it allows the viewer leisure to take in the fullness of her presence. This print, however, retains the ambiguity of the moment when the uniformed man descended the stairs.

Artist: Walker Evans
Date: 1929
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987

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