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Walker Evans
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A print of the finished study is held by the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, ref. 84.XM.488.25
This uncropped contact print is a working print used during Walker Evans’ commission to document the works included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1935 landmark exhibition African Negro Art. In 2000, The Metropolitan Museum of Art organised Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935, an exhibition that explored this multifaceted commission, which saw Evans photograph over 600 sculptures during the course of the six-week exhibition. In the catalogue that accompanied the Met’s exhibition, curator Virginia-Lee Webb writes, “If unwanted elements found their way into the negative or print, he simply cut them away. Evans’ repuation as a ruthless editor of his own work is strikingly demonstrated in the African art series, as is his highly personal and stylized approach
A print of the finished study is held by the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, ref. 84.XM.488.25
This uncropped contact print is a working print used during Walker Evans’ commission to document the works included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1935 landmark exhibition African Negro Art. In 2000, The Metropolitan Museum of Art organised Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935, an exhibition that explored this multifaceted commission, which saw Evans photograph over 600 sculptures during the course of the six-week exhibition. In the catalogue that accompanied the Met’s exhibition, curator Virginia-Lee Webb writes, “If unwanted elements found their way into the negative or print, he simply cut them away. Evans’ repuation as a ruthless editor of his own work is strikingly demonstrated in the African art series, as is his highly personal and stylized approach