Tag: Walker Evans

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real-estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Sub-tropical fever dream. With fo… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/anastasia-samoylova-and-walker-evans-a-photo-dialogue-on-florida-past-and-present/ Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real-estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Sub-tropical fever dream. With forms of nature…

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Interview with Walker Evans (1971)"

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    Link: The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Walker Evans conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The interview took place at the home of Walker Evans in Connecticut on October 13, 1971 and in his apartment in New York City on December 23,…

  • Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway – The New York Times

    Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway – The New York Times

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    Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway To ensure his photos would not be confiscated by authorities, Walker Evans entrusted a trove of 46 prints made in 1933 Havana to his friend — Ernest Hemingway. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/walker-evanss-cuba-via-ernest-hemingway/ It seems fitting that during Walker Evans’s one-month stay in Havana in 1933 he would befriend Ernest…

  • How France Shaped Walker Evans’s American Vision – The New York Times

    How France Shaped Walker Evans’s American Vision – The New York Times

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    How France Shaped Walker Evans’s American Vision From grizzled cotton farmers to quiet small-town scenes of buildings and signs, Walker Evans built his reputation on chronicling America’s out-of-the-way places and people. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/how-france-shaped-walker-evanss-american-vision/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body A turning point for Evans was his decision — like many young men of means — to go to Paris…

  • Walker Evans’s Typology of the American Worker – The New Yorker

    Walker Evans’s Typology of the American Worker – The New Yorker

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    Walker Evans’s Typology of the American Worker In the summer of 1946, on assignment for Fortune magazine, Evans spent an afternoon at an intersection in downtown Detroit, photographing passersby. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/walker-evanss-typology-of-the-american-worker?mbid=rss the photographs Evans took in Detroit in July of 1946, when, on assignment for Fortune magazine, he spent an afternoon at a downtown…

  • The work of Walker Evans is collected in the book, Walker Evans: Depth of Field.

    The work of Walker Evans is collected in the book, Walker Evans: Depth of Field.

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    The Limitless Inventiveness of Walker Evans Walker Evans may be best known for his 1935 and 1936 Farm Security Administration documentary photos, but he had a long career that explored a range of… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/01/12/the_work_of_walker_evans_is_collected_in_the_book_walker_evans_depth_of.html Walker Evans may be best known for his 1935 and 1936 Farm Security Administration documentary photos, but he…

  • American Photographs by Walker Evans

    American Photographs by Walker Evans

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/15/walker-evans-american-photographs/#1 Like the work of most great artists, the best of Walker Evans’ pictures are marvels of contradiction. Or, rather, they acquire their power through the contradictions they deftly reconcile. One especially striking example: a photograph from 1930 (slide 11 in this…

  • INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Walker Evans” Pt. 1 (1971)

    INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Walker Evans” Pt. 1 (1971)

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    An Interview with Walker Evans Pt. 1 (1971) “I was damn well going to be an artist and I wasn’t going to be a businessman.” Interview Excerpt from, Leslie Katz with Walker Evans, 1971. Leslie Katz: You took photographs of whatever interested you? Walker Evans: Oh yes. I was a passionate via AMERICAN SUBURB X:…

  • INTERVIEW: Walker Evans – “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” (1974)

    INTERVIEW: Walker Evans – “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” (1974)

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    An Interview with Walker Evans: ‘The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable’ (1974) Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936 “I didn’t like the label that I unconsciously earned of being a social protest artist.” “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” George Eastman House, Image Magazine, Vol. 17., No.…

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Walker Evans with Students" (1974)

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    Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got…

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Walker Evans: Public Photographs (1998)"

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    The influence is not limited to photographers. At the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s 1971 Walker Evans retrospective, Robert Penn Warren spoke of the first time he had seen Evans’s work: “….Staring at the pictures, I knew that my familiar world was a world I had never known. The veil of familiarity prevented…

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Walker Evans and Photography (2000)"

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    Walker Evans (1903-75), whose work is currently (2000) on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, was an American photographer who produced some remarkable images, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s. He is perhaps best known, rightly or wrongly, for a series of photographs he took of tenant farm families in Hale County, Alabama…

  • Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans: America exposed

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    Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans: America exposed |guardian.co.uk: In 2001, Henri Cartier-Bresson reflected on the long moment in the early 1940s when he had briefly considered turning from photography to film-making. “If it had not been for the challenge of the work of Walker Evans,” he wrote, “I don’t think I would have remained…