Two women sit in a dim subway car beneath a sign reading Pelham Bay Park.

Photographs

Subway Portrait

c. 1939–41

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm) Image: 5 × 7 1/8 in. (12.7 × 18.1 cm)
Accession number
97.98.2
Acquired
1997
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Reproduction credit
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.
Edition
Vintage
Department
collection

About this work

Walker Evans, Subway Portrait, c. 1939–41. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm) Image: 5 × 7 1/8 in. (12.7 × 18.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 97.98.2. © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

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