Photos at the Getty

 There's a fabulous collection of gelatin silver prints at the Getty Museum, dating back to 1861.

(via Life in the Present)

Subway Portrait, Walker Evans, 1938-1941

For the purposes of Walker Evans's continuing quest to obtain anonymous portraits, the subway was the place "where the people of the city range themselves at all hours under the most constant conditions." In order to remain inconspicuous, Evans used a hidden camera: a small, fast Contax that he painted flat black, strapped to his chest, and operated with a long wire strung down his right sleeve. In 1966 he published the images with James Agee's introduction as the book Many Are Called. (From the Getty Museum)