Untitled (Menz’s Fort Apache Camp Grounds)

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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)

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.
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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.

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