Postcards from the Edge...of Time

NEW YORK — Long before he picked up the camera and became a pioneer of American documentary photography, Walker Evans began collecting the colorized photo postcards that were a staple of early 1900s five-and-dime stores.
A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at the celebrated photographer through the lens of his remarkable collection of more than 9,000 postcards amassed over a 60-year period beginning in 1915 when he was a boy of 12.
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard runs through May 25.
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