Penny picture displays, Savannah / Walker Evans. – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: Penny picture displays, Savannah / Walker Evans., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Penny picture displays, Savannah / Walker Evans.
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Walker Evans turned his camera on the storefront photography studios of Savannah, Georgia, in 1936, when he was documenting everyday life in the South during the Depression. This picture shows the "penny picture" displays, where cheap portraits were hung or arranged in glass cases so passersby could see what a sitting would produce. Such displays were a common sight on commercial streets, offering ordinary people an affordable way to have their likeness made. The print was made later, as the copyright notice from 1974 suggests, and it preserves a modest, now vanished, part of the city's commercial life.
| Created / published | 1936, [printed 1974?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1930-1940.Group portraits 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1970-1980. |
| Notes | Copyright 1974 by Walker Evans. |
| Subjects | Merchandise displays--Georgia--Savannah--1930-1940. Photographic studios--Georgia--Savannah--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179922 |
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