建立您的首份清單。
分享及管理拍品的方法。
“The photographic eye of Walker Evans represents much that is best in photography’s past and in its American present. . . He is giving us the contemporary civilization of eastern America as Atget gave us Paris before the war and as Brady gave us the War between the States.”
—Lincoln Kirstein, 1938Walker Evans’s study of a cluster of humble structures in Tupelo, Mississippi, encapsulates the photographer’s astute visual aesthetic and his ability to create photographs that transcend their quotidian subject matter to speak about the American experience. Evans included this image in his first monograph, American Photographs, in 1938, and it was featured in exhibitions of the photographer’s work at The Museum of Modern Art on multiple occasions.In February of 1936, Walker Evans was working in the American South under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration, documenting the RA’s projects as well as the continued need for the administration’s assistance. Evans’s relationship with Roy Stryker, his direct superior at the RA, was a tense one; Evans had a tendency to gravitate toward subjects that appealed to his own complex artistic agenda and bristled at being directed to produce what he felt was mere propaganda for a government agency. Although Stryker had appointed Evans Senior Information Specialist, he was growing tired of Evans’s relentlessly self-driven approach and sent the photographer a detailed itinerary and a very specific shooting script for his continued travel through the South.
In Tupelo, Mississippi, Stryker directed Evans to produce ‘a set of pictures showing the present state of buildings, and some additional local color.’ It is unknown if the houses in the present photograph were the ones Styker requested to be shot, but they unquestionably fit in with Evans’s personal proclivities. Evans had long been drawn to American architecture as subject matter for his camera and was especially interested in examples of vernacular architecture, such as these houses in what was described at the time as the Negro Quarter of Tupelo. The resulting image is a uniquely American image, seen by this quintessentially American photographer.
來源
紐約，PB 84，1978 年 6 月 7 日，拍品編號 396
紐約Paul Walter收藏
紐約，蘇富比，2001 年 10 月 3 日，拍品編號 127
私人收藏
紐約，佳士得，2014 年 4 月 3 日，拍品編號 265文學
Walker Evans: American Photographs, Part I, pl. 21
Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, pl. 125
Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, pl. 476
人像 + 形態：攝影私人珍藏系列
323
《密西西比州圖珀洛》
1935年作
銀鹽照片
7 x 9 1/4 英吋 (19.1 x 23.5 公分)
款識：簽名、標題、日期（邊緣）
估價
$25,000 - 35,000
Sarah Krueger
攝影部部門主管
skrueger@phillips.com
Vanessa Hallett
美洲區主席暨攝影部全球主管
vhallett@phillips.com
攝影
紐約拍賣 2024年4月5日
244
此拍品已不再提供買賣。
270
此拍品已不再提供買賣。
277
此拍品已不再提供買賣。
