Found at http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/11/theory-walker-evans-and-photography.html'utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29 Walker Evans and Photography By David Walsh Walker Evans (1903-75), whose work is currently (2000) on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, was an American photographer who produced some remarkable...
MIAMI, FL.- artwithoutwalls , a new non-profit arts organization, will present José Toirac: Censure and Celebration in Cuba at the PULSE art fair in Miami, December 3 through 6. The exhibition will include the premiere of 1869-2006, a series of portraits of Cuban leaders which was to debut at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana in 2007, but was canceled due to the works' political nature....
New York's smokers lobby is nowhere near as powerful as, say, the over-the-counter derivatives lobby or bluefin tuna fishery-collapsing industry or whatever, and the city's six-year old ban on smoking in bars and restaurants reflects as much. While we non-smokers who go to bars and restaurants (and concerts and anyplace else, honestly) appreciate the ban, it's hard not to feel bad for smokers sometimes,...
As a Southerner, I am acutely aware of the concept of hand-me-down hatred. Even so, I was unprepared for the level of animosity that I found for photographer Walker Evans in these parts just a few years ago when I retraced part of the route that he and James Agee took for their landmark publication, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”
We’re in the “living labyrinth” of Harold Bloom’s astonishing memory here. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Harold Bloom (32 minutes, 15 mb mp3). The great sage of New Haven is walking us through the dark, dense maze of his first and favorite poet, Hart Crane (1899 – 1932). Take this as a [...]
This postcard was selected by the Danish-born photographer, Peter Sekaer, to send to his friend and colleague, Walker Evans. The card is postmarked in September 1936, less than 6 months after Sekaer completed an extended tour of the southern states, accompanying Evans on an FSA assignment. In that time spent together, Sekaer had clearly developed a good understanding of the type of vernacular imagery...
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center presents "In Focus: The Worker", a photographic history of working people across a variety of cultures. Drawn exclusively from the Getty’s permanent collection , "In Focus: The Worker" includes photographs from the mid-nineteenth century through the late-twentieth century. The exhibition showcases more than forty...
It's often said that New York is a tough town. So if you get signed on the spot by an agent, it's a testament to you and your work. That's what happened to Lucas Allen after he arrived in the Big Apple following an around-the-world trip. Martha Stewart Living , Real Simple , Conde Nast Traveller and House & Garden have all similarly been impressed with his work, booking him many times over. Not...
By Mark Hughes Cobb Staff Writer Believers in ghosts imagine incorporeal spirits, souls of those who have died with a sense of incompletion, unfinished business. Or the souls of those who lived and died in sorrow and horror.
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