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Walker Evans 1903–1975

19th Century Greek House, Salem, Massachusetts

1931
vintage gelatin silver print sheet: 13¼ h × 12¼ w in (34 × 31 cm) image: 4½ h × 6⅛ w in (11 × 16 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,500
result: $3,000
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Artist's stamp to verso.
provenance: Collection of Harry Lunn | Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York | Private Collection

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When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn’t considered an artist. I didn’t get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that’s just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it.

Walker Evans

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