Untitled (Menz’s Fort Apache Camp Grounds)
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1974
MediumDye diffusion print
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (7.9 × 7.8 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, 2016
Object number2016.19.2
DescriptionOutdoor view with red carriage with white-spoked wheels at center on grass, bearing stacked signs reading: PEPSI/Menz’s FORT APACHE/CAMP GROUNDS/CHILDREN’S ZOO.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
On viewTerms
- signs
- words
- carriages
- wheels
- leisure
- commercial art
- tourism
- camping trailers
- campgrounds
- zoos
- advertising
- Westerns
Steve Fitch
Negative 1983, print 2021
