May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
EVANS, WALKER (1903-1975)
Select group of 23 Farm Security Administration photographs by Evans, including views of Pennsylvania, New Orleans and Mississippi. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 6 1/2x7 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (16.5x17.8 to 19x24 cm.), and the reverse, each with Evans's credit, caption, date and the Library of Congress's numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand(s), and the LC's hand stamp, on verso. 1935-1936; printed circa 1970

Additional Details

Each print is housed in a sleeve, all with "The Likes of Us" sticker detailing a page number and a second sticker with the Library of Congress number and title. [See: Stuart Cohen, The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration (Godine, 2008).]