Untitled (Plak Shak)
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1974
Mediumdye diffusion print
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (7.9 × 7.9 cm)
Support: 4 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (10.8 × 8.9 cm)
Support: 4 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (10.8 × 8.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Hubbard, 2017
Object number2017.18.2
DescriptionExterior of a shop painted minty green with a white sign over the door with letters in green reading: PLAK SHAK. Door at center is white with large window and is flanked by two big picture windows. All windows are covered from the inside; door and right window are covered with something bearing a pattern of green circles. Sidewalk in front of door has a liquid stain running between door and street. At far left is the edge of another sign with white background and numerals in red.eMuseum Notes
Best
known for his influential black-and-white photographs of mid-century American
vernacular architecture and signage – as well as the powerful photographs he
made in the southern U.S. during his short stint with the Farm Security
Administration – Evans began making color pictures with the Polaroid SX-70
camera in 1972 and used it for two years, creating more than 2,400 images. His
lifelong love of text, signs, home-made objects, and things that bear evidence
of time or heavy use are evident in this piece.
On View
Not on viewWalker Evans
1936 (printed later)
Walker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)