Walker Evans photographs
odd: label: General note
content: Images indexed by negative number.
name: label: Photographer
content: Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Nigeria
label: Place
content: Côte d'Ivoire
topic: label: Topic
content: Art objects
creator: label: Photographer
content: Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
culture: label: Culture
content: Mpongwe (African people)
label: Culture
content: Mende (African people)
label: Culture
content: Mama (African people)
label: Culture
content: Lumbu
label: Culture
content: Yoruba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Punu (African people)
label: Culture
content: Kuba (African people)
label: Culture
content: Boki (African people)
label: Culture
content: Asante (African people)
label: Culture
content: Dogon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Baule (African people)
label: Culture
content: Ijo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Fang (West African people)
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content: Walker Evans photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Peoples and kingdoms whose art works are shown include the Asante, Baule, Benin, Boki, Dogon, Fang (Pahouin), Ijo, Kuba, Lumbu, Mama, Mende, Mpongwe, Punu and Yoruba. Objects depicted include garments, doors, fly whisks, gold weights, headrests, jewelry, masks, musical instrument such as bells and rhythym pounders, power figures, pipes, staff finials, stools and wood sculptures of men and women.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Walker Evans, 1903-1975, photographer and educator. Studied at Williams College in 1923 and the Sorbonne in Paris in 1926, worked as a photographer for the Farm Security administration from 1935 to 1937, worked as a contributing editor to Time magazine from 1943 to 1945, and served as an associate editor and staff photographer at Fortune magazine from 1946 to 1965. Mr. Evans also taught graphic arts at Yale University and served as artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 225 Photographic prints (silver gelatin (3 boxes), black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Box 2
label: Container
content: Box 3
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Photographs assembled in a portfolio entitled, "African Negro Art: Photographs by Walker Evans," in conjunction with the exhibit entitled, "African Negro Art," held at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City in 1935. The images have been published in the following books: Paul Radin's African Folktakes & Sculpture (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952), James Johnson Sweeney's African Sculpture (Princeton University Press, 1970), James Johnson Sweeney's African Negro Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935), and Virginia-Lee Webb's Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000). Donated by Dr. Samuel Stern, 1985.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-010
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints