Lecture by Jimmy Ogonga in SMBA Nov 17, 2009
From November 20 until January 3 at SMBA: "Walker Evans and the Barn", click for more information. Pass it on Know anyone who might be interested in our newsletter. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
sz, Weegee, and Walker Evans rub shoulders with larger works by an all-star contemporary cast: Cindy Sherman, Gregory Crewdson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Richard Prince, and Matthew Barney. But if you think all that sounds good, it s in the neighboring Lois Foster wing, a large and beautiful space that was added to the museum s original building in 2001, that at last we get a hearty dollop of the Rose s tremendous postwar holdings: one after the other, sensational works by... (Boston Globe)
Wonder, the Impossible and the Everyday and other announcements Nov 3, 2009
g., Bernd and Hilla Becher s), Walker Evans s portraits of tools, and in their formal composition, to Robert Mapplethorpe s abstract and sexualized depictions of bodies and flowers. Shirreff s photographs thus straddle, perhaps uneasily, the thin line between representation and abstraction: ambiguously defined objects are clearly itemized as their mottled surfaces are transformed into varying tones of light and dark. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Lehman Bros. art is on auction block Oct 31, 2009
The Freeman's auction includes an Alexander Calder print with an estimated price of $800-$1,200 and a set of nine Walker Evans photographs estimated to fetch $1,000-$1,500: not exactly fire-sale prices, but within reach of those beyond the super wealthy. At the upper end of the price spectrum is a print of the Statue of Liberty by pop art master Roy Lichtenstein, expected to sell for $15,000 to $25,000. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Shake It :An Instant History of the Polaroid Oct 12, 2009
Included in this exhibition are works by Nobuyoshi Araki -Rut Blees Luxemburg - Guy Bourdin - Tim Braden - Roe Ethridge - Walker Evans - Richard Hamilton - David Hockney - Andr Kertsz - Robert Mapplethorpe - Jonathan Monk -Lisa Oppenheim - Lucas Samaras - Michael Snow-Juergen Teller - Andy Warhol - Wim Wenders. Besides work by some of the most important artists working with the medium, the show will also include Polaroids from other diverse professions and disciplines such as forensics,... (AbsoluteArts.com)
A rare Chicago visit by a Caravaggio Oct 4, 2009
This exhibition at the Phillips Collection includes 60 photographs by Man Ray, another 40 by such contemporaries as Walker Evans and Alfred Stieglitz, and 20 African artifacts that appear in the images. (Also of note on the Man Ray front is Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, which looks at the artist s Jewish roots. (Boston Globe)
Fall foliage in New York State, from $115 a night Sep 16, 2009
Also of note are the nearby 's new exhibits: "America's Rome: Artists in the Eternal City, 18001900" and "Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver." Rates start at $115 per room per night. When: Ongoing. (MSNBC -- Travel)
BOOK EXCERPT: Dancing in the Dark Aug 30, 2009
The work of documentary photographers like Walker Evans may come the closest, in part because the unvarnished humanity of their subjects seemed to transcend its historical moment. Thanks to the faith in economic individualism and Social Darwinism, the poor had often been blamed for their lack of initiative or their defective morals. (Slate)
Walker Evans show gives a larger view of his work Aug 24, 2009
Walker Evans was hired by the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to photograph extreme poverty during the Great Depression to document the dire need for massive public works programs. If officials had seen the images in "Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver" at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, they might have tripled expenditures. (Albany Times Union)
Amazing Photographs of 1970s Harlem Jun 16, 2009
Since I liked the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, and Aaron Siskind, I was delighted to see in the streets of Harlem many scenes evocative of the ones these masters had captured: children jumping on discarded mattresses and opening fire hydrants to spray friends and passers-by alike. Sometimes I photographed weddings as they spilled out onto the streets. (Slate)
• Fresh insights into rural and ordinary May 29, 2009
Using the iconic photographs of Walker Evans as a starting point, a new exhibition at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts looks at people and places outside the urban mainstream. Titled "The Rural Vernacular," the exhibition includes large digital images by John Hill of Evans' classic Farm Security Administration pictures; photos of bars, billiard parlors and corner shops by Jim Dow; and an installation by Brittany Powell that will recreate (in contact paper) a small town backyard that both... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Reif Larsen, author of 'T.S. Spivet,' begins local book tour in Brookline May 3, 2009
"The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration" (David R. Godine) by Stu Cohen presents photographs by Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, and others who documented the nation in hard times. Many of these images have been published elsewhere. (Boston Globe)
New York's own photographer Apr 11, 2009
When she was going with Walker Evans in 1938, borrowing his camera as well ( of course ) as sleeping with him, he used to be afraid of going as far uptown as she did. Some of her young male subjects, lounging around in their zoot suits and fedoras, had an unmistakable air of menace. (The Economist)
Helen Levitt, 95; captured images of NYC street life Apr 1, 2009
She met Walker Evans, and the two became friends and collaborators. She shared a darkroom with Evans, helped him print his photographs, and accompanied him on his famous photographic excursions on the New York Subway. (Boston Globe)
Photographer Helen Levitt dead at 95 Apr 1, 2009
As she began to hone her craft, Levitt struck up acquaintances with celebrated photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. She contacted Evans in 1937 to show him her photographs of children. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Fraenkel puts Hopper's vision in perspective Mar 28, 2009
Pictures by Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Diane Arbus (1923-1971), Walker Evans (1903-1975) and others suggest that memories of Hopper's art may have weighed on photographers' imaginations more heavily than has the reality of his work. Most of the photographs on hand rank as more reminiscent of Hopper's art than indebted to it. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
• Project asks you to consider modern farming - and your own eating Mar 20, 2009
"Her model for her documentary approach was James Agee's and Walker Evans' work in 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' (1941). Although Moos, unlike Agee and Evans, did not set out to make political work, at the time there were news stories about Monsanto's use of bioengineered seeds and how this was making it impossible for people to farm successfully outside of a corporation.It's never explicit in her photos, but there is this underlying sense of a disconnect between the people and the setting.".... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Vince Aletti: Walker Evans, at MOMA. Mar 9, 2009
Walker Evans, one of the most influ 00004000 ential American artists of the last century, had his own influences, and chief among them was the ordinary postcard ... ART: WALKER EVANS ARCHIVE/METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Share. (New Yorker)
The Found Poetry of Postcards Mar 5, 2009
Walker Evans' and Zoe Leonard's postcards. - By Sarah Boxer - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
Boston's wild Harry Crosby left a gilded legacy of Black Sun books Feb 22, 2009
One of the finest books, an exquisite volume of Crane's long poem "The Bridge" with photos by Walker Evans, was bought at Christie's last year by a Bostonian named John Everets for $21,250. Someone recently offered him another copy for $50,000. (Boston Globe)
Public invited to hear Pakay discuss his work Feb 19, 2009
Pakay then went off to Yale University, where he studied with Walker Evans and earned a master of fine arts degree ... Following the showing of the Baldwin film Sunday, Pakay will present a slide show of 10 or 12 of his prints, including portraits of photographers Walker Evans and Edward Steichen, novelist Doris Lessing and actress Laura Esterman, as well as some of his photos of the people and landscape of Turkey ... Another subject, Walker Evans, was still not as famous as he later became. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Photography: Walker Evans: From a simple hobby, a life's calling Feb 10, 2009
Walker Evans: From a simple hobby, a life's calling - International Herald Tribune. The photographer Walker Evans collected and found inspiration in postcards ... Walker Evans: From a simple hobby, a life's calling. (International Herald Tribune)
