The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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- When
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Feb 3, 2009 – May 24, 2009
Tuesdays–Thursdays (9:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (9:30am–9pm)
Sundays (9:30am–5:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
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$20
- Links
From setup to snap and on through to print, the picture postcard of the early 1900s aimed to be a simple, participatory document for viewers and reviewers alike. For photographer Walker Evans, the penny-priced keepsake became a stylistic touchstone for his own hushed art: glossed in realism, unfussy in its representation of a rather ordinary subject or object, and anonymous. At the precocious age of ten, Evans began to amass what he would later term "folk document[s]," organizing his objets d’art into categories like "American Architecture," "Outdoor Pleasures," and "Madness." To illustrate Evans' debt to the mailbox art, the Met showcases his 9,000-count collection, including a dozen photographs that went the postcard route.
