Walker Evans

2017-03-01

[...] it against Cartier-Bresson’s ‘imagination, from life’, or the wonder of artists like Walker Evans (from an earlier era) and the incomparable Helen Levitt. His juggling act – “juggler, [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2017-02-08

[...] , Cecil Beaton, Jean Cocteau, W. H. Auden, George Tooker, Margaret French Cresson, Walker Evans, Sergei Eisenstein and others. In his later years, Kirstein struggled with bipolar [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-11-30

[...] pages. My work was being accepted, often it seemed unreal. I showed my photographs to Walker Evans. A handsome brass tea kettle in his tiny room in the offices at FORTUNE projected his [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-11-20

[...] . Helen Levitt used a right-angle viewfinder so her subjects couldn’t see what she was doing. Walker Evans used the folds of his coat to hide his camera on the subway. The style of documentary [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-10-21

[...] . As others have remarked, his tranquil towns, usually deserted, could sometimes be those of Walker Evans updated; his industrial views are not unrelated to Charles Sheeler’s, and, for good measure, [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-09-23

[...] titled Journey at Edwynn Houk Gallery the text states, “Continuing in the tradition of Walker Evans and Robert Frank, Lyon forged a new style of realistic photography, described as “New [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-08-28

[...] , direct and engaging photographs. You can think of Lewis Hine, Jacob Riis, Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and all the FSA photographers, Diane Arbus and others, and yet they don’ [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-07-17

[...] have drawn inspiration from the criminal underworld, including Richard Avedon, Larry Clark, Walker Evans, John Gutmann, Andy Warhol, and Weegee.” Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-06-29

[...] of colour set the scene for his impressive art and photography collection from the likes of Walker Evans and Larry Clark, Lee Friedlander and Warhol. Iconic furniture by Danish designer Poul Kjærholm [...]

Yellowtrace

#44

yellowtrace.com.au

2016-05-13

[...] .” Other photographers who could fit into this playlist could be Bill Brandt in England, Walker Evans in America and Wolfgang Sievers in Australia. But what a splendid description – a “ [...]

Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive

#70

artblart.com

2016-04-08

[...] slideshow of photos from an old New Deal photography project, including some by the great Walker Evans. The negatives had holes punched through them to indicate that they were not to be used, but [...]

Uni Watch

#6

uni-watch.com