In a jaded, left-swiping culture, to weary, image-battered, overstimulated eyes, Evans is a clean slate, an ocean wave rolling onto a littered shore.
Si Eugène Atget hizo un gran retrato de París, Walker Evans lo hizo de la cultura americana.
Walker Evans est l’un des photographes américains les plus importants du XXe siècle. Ses photographies de l’Amérique en crise dans les années 1930, ainsi que se
Appropriation refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a new work. Post-modern appropriation artists, including Barbara Kruger, are keen to deny the notion of ‘originality’.[2] They believe...
Caroline Blackwood, Walker Evans, February 1958
I loathe the NYC Subway! This feeling has been building for years. I managed to go two years with out riding it at all, but in this past yea...
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Vida – Obra – Biografía GRANDES FOTÓGRAFOS Y FOTÓGRAFASWalker Evans Walker Evans escribía con sus fotografías. Creía que éstas debían tener estructura (su propia gramática) y ser legibles como un texto. Y por ello, se le considera el padre de la fotografía documental norteamericana. Escritor frustrado con años de estudios en Literatura en los mejores… Read more
The crashing non-euphoria of New York subway life may someday be recorded by a Dickens or Daumier. The setting is a sociological gold mine awaiting a major artist. Meanwhile, it can be a dream 'location' for any portrait photographer weary of the studio and of the horrors of vanity. Down in the swaying sweatbox he finds a parade of unself-concious captive sitters, the selection of which is automatically destined by raw chance. The portraits on these pages were caught by a hidden camera, in the hands of a penitent spy and an apologetic voyeur. But the rude and impudent invasion involved has been carefully softened and partially mitigated by a planned passage of time. These pages were made twenty years ago, and deliberately preserved from publication. This sensitivity towards exposing the commuter's privacy by holding the images for two decades speaks to the short life-expectancy of that era (64-67) when compared to today's life expectancy. At the time of publication, life expectancy was 66-73 years, in 2010 - 80 years. admin As it happens,you don;t see among them the face of a judge or a senator or a bank president. What you do see is at once sobering, startling and obvious: these are the ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Walker Evans "The New York subway pictures are a fling in native American contemporary anthropology. With something of the anthropologist's approach, I tried to survey and record the New York subway inhabitants as though I were examining another period and another civilization." Walker Evans: The Unposed Portrait Harper's Bazaar March 1962 Photography: Walker Evans Text: Walker Evans ... in praise of great photographers devodotcom
The phrase “street photography” comes loaded with expectations—which is what makes Michael Wolf’s always-original bodies of work an important reminder of why the world’s streets continue to captivate our attention.
Woman with striped stockings by E.J. Bellocq, c.1912 (NGV) from the Storyville Portraits series (c.1911-13)
Gallery BIoGRAPHY For over fifty years, internationally-acclaimed photographer Eikoh Hosoe has been producing cutting-edge works demonstrating a unique mastery of the photographic medium. Early on in his career, he abandoned the documentary style prevalent in the post-war years and produced work that breathed a sense of experimentation and freedom into photography. By calling on mythology,...
The Print This photographic print leverages sophisticated digital technology to capture a level of detail that is absolutely stunning. The colors are vivid and pure. The high-quality archival paper, a favorite choice among professional photographers, has a refined luster quality. Paper Type: Photo Finished Size: 12" x 9" Arrives by Sat, Jun 8 Product ID: 15854101
Rroma dacing in a camp near Catesiphon, 1956. Photograph by Inge Morath.
Mai sentito parlare di surrealismo fotografico? Il Surrealismo è un movimento culturale del Novecento, nato in opposizione al Dadaismo; fu André Breton (1896-1966), poeta, saggista e critico d̵…
The Met Breuer’s exhibition of unpublished and rarely seen photographs by Diane Arbus, called In the Beginning, focuses on the years 1956-62
From the upcoming exhibit "Scarlett Muse" — at New York City's Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery — revealing images from the long relationship between pros, gigolos, and the photographers inspired by them. WARNING: Some nudity ahoy.
In New Orleans, stories seem to seep out of the soggy ground. Something about the heady mix of influences– African, Caribbean, Native American and French – against a landscape of backwaters and bayous creates a culture of permissiveness where characters invent the most outlandish versions of themselves in ways that would be dismissed as implausible…
Clarence Hudson White, Miss Grace, 1898. Source: Yale Visual Resources Collection
Then she appeared at the door, and compared with my image of her, she might almost have been her own daughter. A Visit with Diane Arbus - On a Hot Summer Day in New York, One Month Before Her Death By Allan Porter On a hot, muggy afternoon in New York, I took a taxi to a point far out on
Featured are some of the best portrait photographers from around the world. Bold portraits of celebrities to emotional shots, here is an inside look at portrait photography.
The wizard of oz is a nostalgic tale of Dorothy, a young farm girl from Kansas, who is swept away to a magical land by a tornado. During her travels she encounters a number of characters, some good…
