Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1931, printed 1971
Gelatin silver print, 8 1/16 x 6 5/16 in. (20.5 x 16 cm)
Purchased with a gift from Alexander K. McLanahan, B.A. 1949, in honor of his wife Mary Ann C. McLanahan
2003.58.2
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A friend of Walker Evans, the curator Lincoln Kirstein, paid a visit to the photographer at his hotel room in Saratoga Springs. Reportedly, Evans created this negative after Kirstein, looking out the window at the rain-soaked streets, exclaimed: “Walker, you must take this picture!”
Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York was included in American Photographs, as well as the Evans retrospective organized by John Szarkowski at The Museum of Modern Art in 1971; this was also Evans’s last year as a Yale photography professor. Under Evans’s supervision, photographer and printmaker Jim Dow made prints from Evans’s negatives for the 1971 exhibition. The Yale print was made on that occasion.
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