Walker Evans' Postcards as Muse @ the MET

A selection of postcards that were collected by photographer Walker Evans are on view at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.


February 3 to May 25, 2009
The Howard Gilman Gallery

Main Street Postcards as Muse
By Roberta Smith/ New York Times article

Evans' 1935 photograph Street Scene, Morgan City, LA almost perfectly matches the vantage point of a postcard that he owned.


Walker Evans
Street Scene, Morgan City, LA, 1935


Unknown artist
Front Street, Looking North, Morgan City, LA, 1929