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Walker Evans - Eight Photographs including: Row of Clapboard \
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Prints & Photographs
September 2024
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts (Online Auction)
Est.: 800 - 1.200 USD
Realised: 1.408 USD
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Walker Evans - Eight Photographs including: Landscape, Gulf Coast, Louisiana 8
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Prints & Photographs
September 2024
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts (Online Auction)
Est.: 800 - 1.200 USD
Realised: 1.024 USD
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Walker Evans - Seven Photographs including: New York State Farm Interior 7
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Prints & Photographs
September 2024
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.500 - 2.500 USD
Realised: 1.408 USD
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Walker Evans - Three Photographs including: Victorian Interior, Oldwick, New Jersey 3
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Prints & Photographs
September 2024
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.500 - 2.500 USD
Realised: not available
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Walker Evans - Three Photographs including: Lincoln Kirstein Seated Behind Desk, for Fortune Article \'The Boom in Ballet\' 3
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Prints & Photographs
September 2024
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.500 - 2.500 USD
Realised: 1.280 USD
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Walker Evans - Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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Prints & Photographs
September 2024
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.000 - 1.500 USD
Realised: 2.432 USD
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Walker Evans - Select images from the First and Last Portfolio 8
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Discovery | Interiors
September 2024
Bonhams, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts (Online Auction)
Est.: 600 - 1.000 USD
Realised: 1.152 USD
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Walker Evans - Doorway, 204 West 13th Street, New York
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Photographs NowThe Collector's Edition
July 2024
Bonhams, New York (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.200 - 1.800 USD
Realised: 1.280 USD
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Walker Evans - Seven Photographs including: Hudson Street Boarding House Interior, New York 7
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Prints & Photographs
May 2024
Bonhams, Melbourne (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.500 - 2.000 USD
Realised: 2.432 USD
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Walker Evans - Three Photographs including: Bedroom Interior, Enfield, New Hampshire 3
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Prints & Photographs
May 2024
Bonhams, Melbourne (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.000 - 1.500 USD
Realised: 1.280 USD
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Walker Evans - Three Photographs including: Moving Truck and Bureau Mirror 3
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Prints & Photographs
May 2024
Bonhams, Melbourne (Online Auction)
Est.: 1.500 - 2.000 USD
Realised: 1.792 USD
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Walker Evans - Subway Portrait (Lenox Avenue)
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 7.000 - 9.000 USD
Realised: 9.525 USD
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The artist Walker Evans

  • Was an important social documentary photographer of the 20th century.
  • Is known for his photographs of white farmers in the southern states.
  • His works are characterised by their reductiveness and immediacy.

Walker Evans was born in 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. Before he turned to photography self-taught at the age of 25 and became an important artist in the history of photography, he pursued the ambition of becoming a writer. His interest in literature is also evident in his later work: Although he accepted various documentary commissions, such as for book projects and magazines, his artistic freedom remained important to him. In this respect, his pictures are described as »lyrical documentations«. He became better known for his work for the Resettlement Administration (RA), later known as the Farm Security Administration (FSA), for which Evans made social documentaries on the consequences of the »Great Depression«.

In 1936, Evans visited three farmer families in Alabama with the writer James Agee to document their living conditions. The assignment was for Fortune magazine, but the results were subsequently published in the book Let us now praise famous men, which only became a sales success when it was reprinted in 1960. Evans' Subway series also became known after a delay. In New York, he photographed underground passengers with a hidden camera and did not publish the photographs until 1966 in order to avoid possible lawsuits from the people he had unwittingly photographed.

Evans' works are characterised by their authenticity: The motifs are true to life and are depicted with a sober, reduced visual language. He often used the frontal view to reproduce the beauty of the motifs in their simplicity. This visual language enabled Evans to strike a balance between his claim to be a documentary photojournalist and an artist. His œuvre influenced Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus, among others. Street photography in particular is rooted in Evans' work. He himself was inspired by Eugène Atget and August Sander.

Walker Evans' photographs have left a large footprint in the history of photography and have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions. MoMA recognised the importance of his work early on and dedicated a solo show to Evans - and thus for the first time to a photographer - in 1938. In 1969, he was elected to the honourable American Academy of Arts and Science. Evans died six years later in New Haven, Connecticut.

Der Künstler Walker Evans

  • War ein bedeutender sozialdokumentarischer Fotograf des 20. Jahrhunderts.
  • Ist bekannt für seine Fotografien von weißen Farmern in den Südstaaten.
  • Seine Arbeiten zeichnen sich durch ihre Reduziertheit und Unmittelbarkeit aus.

Walker Evans wurde 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri geboren. Bevor er sich mit 25 Jahren autodidaktisch der Fotografie zuwandte und sich zu einem bedeutenden Künstler in der Fotografie-Geschichte entwickelte, verfolgte er die Absicht, Schriftsteller zu werden. Sein Interesse für die Literatur ist auch später in seinen Arbeiten zu erkennen: Wenngleich er verschiedene dokumentarische Aufträge, etwa für Buchprojekte und Magazine, annahm, blieb ihm seine künstlerische Freiheit wichtig. Seine Bilder werden dahingehend als »lyrische Dokumentationen« bezeichnet. Größere Bekanntheit erlangte er durch seine Arbeiten für die Resettlement Administration (RA), später als Farm Security Administration (FSA) bekannt, für die Evans sozialdokumentarisch die Folgen der »Großen Depression« festhielt.

1936 besuchte Evans zusammen mit dem Schriftsteller James Agee drei Farmerfamilien in Alabama, um deren Lebensbedingungen zu dokumentieren. Der Auftrag erfolgte für das Magazin »Fortune«, die Resultate wurden hinterher jedoch in dem Buch Let us now praise famous men veröffentlicht, welches erst 1960 neu aufgelegt zu einem Verkaufserfolg wurde. Ebenfalls mit Verspätung wurde Evans‘ Subway-Serie bekannt. In New York fotografierte er mit versteckter Kamera U-Bahn-Passagiere und veröffentlichte die Fotografien erst 1966, um mögliche Klagen der unwissentlich fotografierten Personen zu umgehen.

Evans‘ Arbeiten zeichnen sich durch ihre Authentizität aus: Die Motive sind lebensnah und werden mit einer nüchtern-reduzierten Bildsprache abgebildet. Häufig nutzte er die Frontalansicht, um die Schönheit der Motive in ihrer Einfachheit wiederzugeben. Diese Bildsprache ermöglicht Evans den Spagat zwischen seinem Anspruch als dokumentarischen Fotojournalisten und Künstler. Sein Œuvre beeinflusste unter anderem Robert FrankHelen LevittLee FriedlanderGarry Winogrand und Diane Arbus. Insbesondere die Straßenfotografie wurzelt in Evans’ Arbeiten. Er selbst wurde von Eugène Atget und August Sander inspiriert.

Die Fotografien von Walker Evans haben einen großen Fußabdruck in der Fotografie-Geschichte hinterlassen und wurden in zahlreichen Einzelausstellungen gezeigt. Das MoMA erkannte die Wichtigkeit seiner Werke schon früh und widmete Evans – und damit erstmals einem Fotografen – 1938 eine Soloshow. 1969 wurde er in die ehrenvolle American Academy of Arts and Science gewählt. Sechs Jahre später starb Evans in New Haven, Connecticut.

Walker Evans - Subway Portrait (two men, Hunt\'s Point Road, City Hall)
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 7.000 - 9.000 USD
Realised: 11.430 USD
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Walker Evans - Shoeshine Sign in a Southern Town, 1936
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Photographs
April 2024
Christies, New York (Online Auction)
Est.: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Realised: 7.560 USD
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Walker Evans - Untitled (recreation vehicle with striped canopies and lawn chair), Sarasota, FL
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April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 3.000 - 5.000 USD
Realised: 2.540 USD
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Walker Evans - Selected Polaroids
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 4.000 - 6.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Walker Evans - Untitled (Beachside Sign), Destin, Florida, August 12
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 3.000 - 5.000 USD
Realised: 3.302 USD
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Walker Evans - Untitled (West Virginia)
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April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 4.000 - 6.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Walker Evans - Tupelo, Mississippi
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April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 25.000 - 35.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Walker Evans - Untitled (Advertisment for the Back Porch Restaurant), Destin, Florida, August 12
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 3.000 - 5.000 USD
Realised: 4.826 USD
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Walker Evans - Untitled (Roadside Advertisement for the Back Porch Restaurant), Destin, Florida, August 6
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 3.000 - 5.000 USD
Realised: 6.350 USD
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Walker Evans - Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Walker Evans - Washstand in the Dog Run of Floyd Burroughs\' Cabin, Hale County, Alabama
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 7.000 - 9.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Walker Evans - The Burroughs Family, Hale County, Alabama
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
April 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 10.000 - 15.000 USD
Realised: not available
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