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Photographer's window display, Birmingham, Alabama
(1936); printed (c. 1975)
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Measurements
- 49.5 × 39.7 cm (image) 50.5 × 40.8 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Accession Number
- PH129-1975
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975
Public domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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‘Valid photography, like humour, seems to be too serious a matter to talk about seriously. If in a note, it can’t be defined weightily, what it is not can be stated with utmost finality … It is not cute cats, nor touchdowns, nor nudes; motherhood; arrangements of manufacturers’ products. Under no circumstances is it anything ever anywhere near a beach. In short it is not a lie – a cliché – somebody else’s idea. It is prime vision combined with quality of feeling, no less.’
Walker Evans, 1956