Cartier-Bresson centenary celebrated in France Sep 21, 2008
The second time his work was shown at the Julien Levy Gallery, in 1935, it was together with the works of Bravo and American Walker Evans ... Cartier-Bresson was tempted to make films, following the example of Paul Strand, and later, Jean Renoir, but it was mainly due to Walker Evans' more socially oriented documentary images that he continued with photography after World War II. ... "If it had not been for the challenge of the work of Walker Evans, I don't think I would have remained a... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
At the Met, portraits of an alternate history Aug 28, 2008
Images from Sherrie Levine's 1981 series "After Walker Evans," for which she rephotographed Evans's portraits of an Alabama sharecropping family, have particular traction at the Met. (At least one of the Evans photographs borrowed by Levine is hanging in the Gilman. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
LACMA Acquires Vernon Collection of... Aug 14, 2008
LACMA's world-renowned collection of photography includes important works by Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Andr; Kert;sz, L;szl; Moholy-Nagy, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Sebasti;o Salgado, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Carrie Mae Weems. The Vernon Collection. (Suite101.com)
Valrie Belin's best shot Jul 3, 2008
Inspirations: August Sander, Walker Evans, Richard Avedon and Craigie Horsfield. High point: Probably now. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
We'd like to offer you a trailer. Jun 18, 2008
Most of the houses in this price range look, on the outside, like a Walker Evans photo. Those we ruled out. (Slate)
'Framing a Century': Photography from 1840-1940 Jun 10, 2008
It begins with the innovations of the British gentleman William Henry Fox Talbot, and concludes with the homespun classicism of the American Walker Evans, the studio experiments of Man Ray and, finally, the breathtaking moments captured by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Brassai, geniuses of the street. In between are the landscapes of Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray and Carleton E. Watkins; portraits by Nadar and Julia Margaret Cameron; and views of 19th- and early-20th-century Paris and France by... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* [ART JOURNAL] Photojournalists or artists with cameras? Jun 4, 2008
This was the picture that, by his own account, charged up the young Walker Evans and made him think, Thats the thing to do. Evans later devised his own method of taking pictures on the New York subway without people being aware of what he was up to. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
A lensman takes the gloves off Jun 3, 2008
At a press preview last week, when asked about his decision to use colour (which he has experimented with occasionally in the past), James jokingly paraphrased American social-realist photographer Walker Evans, saying you can use colour only for subjects of true vulgarity. Well, perhaps he wasn't entirely joking: If the black-and-white images of the European gardens can evoke loss and decay precisely because they do not stop the viewer with all the details, the images of the housing developments... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The lure of the street May 31, 2008
This was the picture that, by his own account, "charged up" the young Walker Evans and made him think, "That's the thing to do." Evans later devised his own method of taking pictures on the New York subway without people being aware of what he was up to. Combine Evans's delicately unflinching gaze - a friend remarked that, when photographing slums, Evans kept his gloves on - with Henri Cartier-Bresson's revelation of the fleeting poetry of the moment, and the ground is prepared for the... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Ed Ruscha's best shot May 22, 2008
Inspirations: Eug;ne Atget, Robert Frank, Walker Evans. High Point: Back in the 1960s, shooting pictures of apartment houses and parking lots. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The rhythms of New England through a restless eye May 16, 2008
"Puddle Jumper," which shows a man striding over an expanse of melted slush, pays overt homage to Cartier-Bresson, the master of the "decisive instant." Even more, though, one can see Walker Evans in Reed's pictures - especially the ones of rural New England. The church in "Waiting" could come straight out of Evans, as could the people in "Northern Vermont Family.". (Boston Globe)
Linda McCartney's lives through a lens Apr 23, 2008
As Paul McCartney writes in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue: She loved Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Cartier-Bresson. She was very into Magnum photographers and into Edward Curtis and Robert Frank. (Times Online)
The Culture: Polaroid era fades to black Apr 9, 2008
Walker Evans, best known for his classic portraits of Depression-era miners and sharecroppers, is one of many well-known photographers who used Polaroid instant film to free himself up and break new ground. Walker, who died in 1975, used a Polaroid SX-70 camera in what critic Jane Tormey calls "a peculiarly impulsive and uncontrolled way" to shoot friends and students late in his life. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Someone else's memories Apr 8, 2008
Judy Annear, the gallery's photography curator, says some of the pictures "easily could have been taken by [the American photographers] Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans during the American Depression". It's a bold comment, potentially redefining photographic art as chance discovery, achieved equally by amateurs and professionals. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Artist discusses work at Schweinfurth Apr 7, 2008
Carlson said that while he works in paints, he was greatly influenced by photographers such as Walker Evans. But it was while studying at the Art Institute in Chicago that Carlson stumbled across one of his greatest influences, Henri Matisse. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Exhibitions at The Met: Early 2009 Mar 29, 2008
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard (February 3-May 25, 2009) considers the influence of some 9000 images on the oeuvre of the (1903-1975). Hundreds of postcards from the artist's massive collection, now part of the Metropolitan Museum's Walker Evans Archive, are displayed with a selection of photographs to demonstrate the impact of American postcard imagery on Evan's work. (Suite101.com)
Twenty years after demise, Mint 400 race will be reborn Mar 26, 2008
During its heyday, the race attracted Indianapolis 500 winners such as Parnelli Jones, Al Unser Sr. and Rick Mears, off-road racing pioneers Mickey Thompson, Walker Evans and Ivan Stewart, actors James Garner and Steve McQueen and astronaut Gordon Cooper. The brainchild of Norm Johnson, the former publicity director of Del Webb's Mint Hotel and Casino, the Mint 400 annually drew tens of thousands of spectators (estimates ran as high as 100,000 some years) to Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Manly virtues: An innovative exhibition looks at a vanishing ideal Mar 22, 2008
" Masters and Muses, focused on the male creative artist, is one category in Model American Men. Others are Boys to Men, Gentlemen, The Strenuous Life, and Brothers in Arms. Each includes images of a particular area of male activity, from art to warfare. The three-dozen pieces in the show encompass a wide variety of styles and subject matter. In Brothers in Arms, military recruitment posters by James Montgomery Flagg, Henry Reuterdahl and Laurence S. Harris promise the model American both... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
A love affair with the face Feb 18, 2008
There are emblematically fine things from the photography greats: Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Bill Brandt (a great photo of poet Dylan Thomas), Alvin Langdon Coburn (including a remarkably poetic - and rare - self-portrait from 1905) and the always majestic Julia Margaret Cameron. Also represented are Andre Kertesz, Florence Henri, Arnold Newman, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Herbert Bayer, Harold Edgerton, Cecil Beaton, Nan Goldin, Eve Arnold, the... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Ruhr Return: Wim Wenders Shoots Tale of Misfit Photographer For Road Movie Jan 28, 2008
With their extensive shots of the American West landscape, stills of run-down shops and lonely people looking out of windows into empty streets, they remind you of photographs by Walker Evans and paintings by Edward Hopper. For a boy who grew up in postwar Germany, where everything was cramped and where there were a lot of borders, the idea of the boundless expanse of the American West was quite seductive,'' says Wenders, who is also a photographer. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
'The collection is central' Jan 28, 2008
As McCusker says in her text on the museum walls, he was instrumental in creating the reputations of many photographers now considered essential to any history: Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston, among others. The brilliance of his concepts is that they are simple, broadly relevant and help to crystallize a picture's identity without seeming to force an idea on it. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Read into 'This Republic of Suffering' Jan 24, 2008
103 31; and Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (New York: Hill & Wang, 1989). Even as we acknowledge the impact of Civil War photography, it is important to recognize how few Americans would actually have seen Brady's or other photographs of the dead. (USA Today -- Life)
First Exhibitions of 2008 at the Addison Gallery Range from Mid-Century Architecture to New England Landscapes Jan 17, 2008
Opened in 1931, the Gallery has one of the most important collections of American art in the country that includes more than 16,000 works by prominent American artists such as George Bellows, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Georgia OKeeffe and Jackson Pollock, as well as photographers Eadweard Muybridge, Walker Evans, Robert Frank and many more. The Addison Gallery, located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, offers a continually rotating series of exhibitions... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Buzz Foto Debuts Celebrity Paparazzi Photo Retrospective In Los Angeles Jan 15, 2008
"Consider Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Helen Levitt; each took photos of individuals without permission and set out to sell them. Their iconic photographs imitate the paparazzi style and today hang in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Our Buzz Foto photographs have the potential to hang next to those great masters.". Henry Flores, co-owner for Buzz Foto and a former engineer, said, "We're pleased to host a first-ever gallery showing of paparazzi art. All of our photographers... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Photography with an eye for social relevance Jan 10, 2008
"The moment you have two slightly different views of the same object, you introduce the idea of that kind of cinematic vision. It was also to destroy the singular-image idea of photography. You know, 'This is the picture?' Something I like about certain photographers, such as Walker Evans, is that they often did several images of the same thing and then they could never really choose. Art photography has always hinged on the idea of the perfect shot. But maybe you can have a series where there... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Arbus estate donates photographers archives Dec 19, 2007
The Met said the archive was similar to that of photographer Walker Evans, which has been at the Met since 1994. The Metropolitan will now have the opportunity to map the creativity of two great artists in the most complete way, Rosenheim said. (MSNBC -- News)
Analysis Of Documentary Photos Revises History Dec 17, 2007
Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange's images of the suffering of destitute farmers in the American South have become part of the American national heritage ... "This is most clearly the case when it comes to the best-known FSA photographer, Walker Evans, who is seen today as one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century. Despite this status, much of his production for FSA has not received much notice," says Cecilia Strandroth ... Her dissertation presents and discusses a large number of... (Science Daily)
GET THE PICTURE Dec 11, 2007
The snaps are well displayed at this white cube-style space - classics by the likes of Eudora Welty and Walker Evans sit alongside modern work, like the foxy snaps of Vanessa Beecroft. PAGE 1. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
History of Photography Exhibitions Nov 28, 2007
The artistic achievements of photography during its first century are celebrated with masterworks by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), Nadar (1820-1910), Eugne Atget (1857-1927), Walker Evans (1903-1975), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), Man Ray (1890-1976) and Brassa (1899-1984), among others. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY USA: June 3-September 1, 2008. (Suite101.com)
Coleman Center opens new exhibit Oct 27, 2007
YORK The Coleman Center for the Arts opened a new exhibit, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Photographs by Walker Evans from Hale County, on Oct. 5. The new exhibit, on display until Nov. 4, depicts the life of three families of tenant farmers in depression-era Hale County. (Demopolis Times, AL)
National show recognizes photographers for work Oct 14, 2007
MacGill will speak at the exhibit opening today at 1 p.m. The Pace/MacGill Gallery has represented the works of Walker Evans, William Wegman and Andy Warhol. MacGill chose the winning photographs in a day. (Stamford Advocate)
The escape artist Jul 1, 2007
We are a Walker Evans photograph of Appalachia: dirty sundresses, baby's nose running, matted hair. We are fulfilling every idea the world has of us. (Guardian Unlimited)
Celebrity Photo Agency Develops 'Paparazzi As An Art Form' May 9, 2007
Elterman compares Flores and staff to Henri Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans and Helen Levitt. "Bresson would shadow his subjects and wait for the right moment. Evans would descend the subway with a Leica under his overcoat to photograph life in a crowded subway in the greatest city in the world, New York. Evans trained Helen Levitt with his undercover craft; she then went on to produce her best work in the streets of Harlem in the mid-forties with friend and poet, James Agee.". (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Field Work' speaks with one voice Apr 21, 2007
Lange's pictures, more than anyone's except Walker Evans', demonstrate how artful socially charged portraits could be. She played a pivotal role in the creation of a foundation for work like Minick's and Tournet's. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Have camera, will travel Mar 25, 2007
Some of the great chapters in photographic history have come from journeys: Timothy O'Sullivan out West, Edward Weston in Mexico, Henri-Cartier Bresson in Spain, Walker Evans in the South, Robert Frank on the road, Diane Arbus through the looking glass. Three of those trips -- Weston's, Cartier-Bresson's, and Frank's -- figure in "Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration," which runs at the Art Institute of Chicago through May 6. (Boston Globe)
Inside a Head Mar 8, 2007
"Sometimes it was hard to push forward, and then suddenly it would lurch ahead and pull me off balance. About some things Jonathan had little to say. About others, hard to predict details that he had evidently mulled over for days if not months, he launched into a discourse as if we were in a debate." One subject Mr. Shahn won't go near is that of his famous parents, social activists Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, the photographer/muralist who worked alongside Walker Evans and Diego Rivera, and... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Flashes of Light Feb 26, 2007
The erudite Wall imports art-historical and ideological arcana with motifs from Manet, Hokusai, or Walker Evans here and a redolence of German or French critical theory there; Guy Debord s The Society of the Spectacle (1967), among other strenuous texts, influenced Wall s adoption of commercial signage techniques, in a spirit of criticizing mass culture. Wall the director deploys Brechtian alienation effects, to a fault, in his use of models and actors: in The Goat (1989), the stilted postures... (New Yorker)
A Different 'Take' Feb 9, 2007
REVIEW / Women's artworks at Mills ask questions about gender, authority and tradition (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Far From Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration Jan 25, 2007
Similarly, Walker Evans journeyed to Havana in 1933 to document the city in photographs that presage the cool humanism of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Robert Frank made his seminal body of work for his book The Americans upon leaving his native Switzerland and heading out on an extended road trip across the United States from 1955 to 1956. (AbsoluteArts.com)
