Walker Evans' photograph of the Phoenix Building in Selma, Alabama documents the modest commercial architecture of the American South with the photographer's characteristic documentary precision and formal clarity. The gelatin silver print, likely made from the original negative during a later printing, captures the building's plain facade and street level details with Evans' distinctive stark aesthetic that elevates ordinary vernacular structures to subjects of serious visual attention. Evans' work from this period, created as part of his Depression era documentation, exemplifies his ability to find compositional and cultural significance in the unremarkable buildings and streetscapes of small Southern towns.