Outbid on this beauty. Pulled from a St. Louis scrapbook, circa 1902, compiled by a young girl getting ready for the 1904 World's Fair.
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24 October 2012
Walker Evans, ready for use
Outbid on this beauty. Pulled from a St. Louis scrapbook, circa 1902, compiled by a young girl getting ready for the 1904 World's Fair.
08 May 2012
Over the Hill
Robert Adams. New development on a former citrus-growing estate, Highland, California. 1983.
29 March 2012
Walker & Lee, 1963
Walker Evans and Lee Friedlander, 1963.
More from the Walker Evans Archive at the Met. Pictured here, Evans at 60, Friedlander at 28.
15 March 2012
Evans at Fortune
Walker Evans. Rolls Royce, Montreal. 1958.
A series for Life magazine, from a meeting of the Rolls-Royce Owners Club in August 1958.
06 July 2011
U.S. Rubber
Edward Hopper. Shakespeare at Dusk. 1935.
Walker Evans. U.S. Rubbers Sign, New York City. 1928-29.
29 May 2011
Cotton Sharecropper Families
Photographs of Cotton Sharecropper Families. An album of 107 silver prints from Walker Evans's work with James Agee in Alabama. At the Library of Congress.
30 March 2011
24 March 2011
Walker Evans - Fredericksburg
Walker Evans. Frame Houses. Fredericksburg, Virginia. 1936.
This image was included in Evans's American Photographs, and cropped a bit differently. It was made on Hanover Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia. A few of the houses here are standing today and in fine repair!
18 March 2011
Walker Evans - John Stevens Shop
Walker Evans. John Stevens Shop. Newport, Rhode Island.
In a note from Nick Benson I learned that this photograph shows John Benson's lettering for a commission from Smith College.
09 February 2011
27 January 2011
William Carlos Williams & Walker Evans
One early and notable review of American Photographs was written by the great poet William Carlos Williams. The article appeared in the New Republic in the fall of 1938. A few years ago I copied the article from microfilm and offer the full text here.
William Carlos Williams. "Sermon With a Camera." The New Republic. October 12, 1938.
26 January 2011
Walker Evans - Signs
"I'm interested in signs a great deal right now, so I find that I do signs whenever I can find them. I usually swipe them too: I have a wonderful collection!" Walker Evans at Harvard, 5 April 1975.
Signs from the Walker Evans archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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