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Walker Evans - Starting from Scratch (Hardcover)
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Walker Evans - Starting from Scratch (Hardcover)
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A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans Walker
Evans (1903-75) was a great American artist photographing people
and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known
for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the
Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of
people and the damage of the long Civil War. In Walker Evans,
renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers explores how Evans made his
distinctive photographs. Delving into a lavish selection of Evans's
work, Alpers uncovers rich parallels between his creative approach
and those of numerous literary and cultural figures, locating Evans
within the wide context of a truly international circle. Alpers
demonstrates that Evans's practice relied on his camera choices and
willingness to edit multiple versions of a shot, as well as his
keen eye and his distant straight-on view of visual objects.
Illustrating the vital role of Evans's dual love of text and
images, Alpers places his writings in conversation with his
photographs. She brings his techniques into dialogue with the work
of a global cast of important artists-from Flaubert and Baudelaire
to Elizabeth Bishop and William Faulkner-underscoring how Evans's
travels abroad in such places as France and Cuba, along with his
expansive literary and artistic tastes, informed his
quintessentially American photographic style. A magisterial account
of a great twentieth-century artist, Walker Evans urges us to look
anew at the act of seeing the world-to reconsider how Evans saw his
subjects, how he saw his photographs, and how we can see his images
as if for the first time.
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