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Tag Archives: Walker Evans
Campany on Killip
“Work of the very highest standards never belongs entirely to its moment. Its genesis cannot be predicted or accounted for, nor its resonance over time. Its force and complexity elude comprehension because its mysteries are as vital as its revelations.… Continue reading
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Category Art, Criticism, Photography
Tags Art, Atget, Chris Killip, David Campany, Documentary photography, Paul Strand, Photography, Portraiture, Steidl, Walker Evans
Portraiture and tradition: Walker Evans & Richard Rothman.
“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated in order to be enjoyed. Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall… Continue reading
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Category Art, Photography, Thought
Tags Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Literature, Photography, Poetry, Portraiture, Redwood Saw, Richard Rothman, The Canon, Tradition, TS Eliot, Walker Evans
Simon on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
A suburban boy’s father marks up his English essays, explaining both the wit and weaknesses of leading sentences with gerunds. He tells stories of fierce heroes, word warriors: Broun, who loved the street parade, and Pegler, who sat next to… Continue reading
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Category Photography, Politics, Thought
Tags David Simon, James Agee, Journalism, Photography, Photojournalism, Politics, Poverty, The Great Depression, The Wire, Walker Evans
From “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”, by James Agee & Walker Evans
“Every few minutes George would get up and open the door a foot or so, and it showed always the same picture: that end of the hallway mud and under water, where the planks lay flush to the ground: the… Continue reading
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Category Art, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Thought
Tags Art writing, Documentary photography, James Agee, Journalism, Literary Journalism, Literature, Poetry, Prose poetry, Walker Evans, Writing
Trachtenberg on Evans & Atget
”Neither Evans nor Atget presumes to put us in touch with a pure reality, a thing in itself; their cropping always affirms its arbitrariness and contingency. And the world they characteristically picture is a world already made over into meaning… Continue reading
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Category Art, Criticism, Photography, Theory
Tags Alan Trachtenberg, Criticism, Documentary photography, Eugene Atget, Photography, Semiology, Walker Evans
Gossage on photography
In a near-hour long discussion with the curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, John Gossage speaks with an affable sort of incisiveness about the genesis of his signature work “The Pond“, the rationale behind his particular way… Continue reading
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Category Photography, Theory, Uncategorized, Video
Tags Alec Soth, Jason Fulford, John Gossage, Lewis Baltz, Narrative, Photobooks, Photography, Syntax, Walker Evans