Walker Evans (eBook)

Starting from Scratch

Svetlana Alpers (Autor)

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2020
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21089-6 (ISBN)

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A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker EvansWalker 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 15 color + 170 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: A Book Of • Abstraction • Adrienne Rich • Aestheticism • African 1935 sculpture exhibition • African Art • Alabama tenant farmers • Alfred Stieglitz • A Matter of Fact • Ambiguity • American photographs • Anecdote • anonymity • Ansel Adams • Art Critic • Art in America • August Sander • Belinda Rathbone • Ben Shahn • Berenice Abbott • Bob Dylan • Bourgeoisie • Camera • Camera Work • Century Association • Charles Baudelaire • Civil War • Clement Cheroux • Clement Greenberg • Collecting • Contact print • Cuba • cubicle • Culture of France • curator • Daguerreotype • David Campany • dichotomy • Diego Rivera • Djuna Barnes • documentary photography • Dorothea Lange • Dust jacket • Dwelling • edmund wilson • Elizabeth Bishop • endpaper • Ernest Hemingway • Eugene Atget • evocation • Farm Security Administration • Fireplace • fortune • France • Fred Astaire • Garry Winogrand • Glyndebourne • Graphic arts • Gustave Flaubert • Henri Cartier-Bresson • Illustration • In the Car • Irving Penn • James Agee • James Mellow • Jean Cocteau • John C. Pemberton • John Szarkowski • John T. Hill • Kirstein • Lawrence Gowing • Lecture • Les Fleurs du Mal • Le Spleen de Paris • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men • lewis mumford • Lighting • Lincoln Kirstein • Louise Colet • Luc Sante • Lyric Documentary • Madame Bovary • Man at the Crossroads • Man Ray • Minstrel Show • minstrelsy • MoMA • Mural • Museum of Modern Art • Nadar (photographer) • New Directions Publishing • newspaper • Nicéphore Niépce • On photography • optimism • painting • passenger portraits • Paul Cezanne • Paul Strand • Photograph • photography • polaroid SX 70 • Pop Art • Postcard • Poster • printing • Prose • Publication • Rockefeller Center • Rolleiflex • School of Paris • sculpture • signage • Sleeve • Stephen Shore • Straight Photography • straw hat • subway portraits • Surrealism • Swing Time • The New York Times • Time Inc. • transcendence • Vicksburg National Military Park • View camera • Walker Evans • Wallpaper • white tenant farmers • William Carlos Williams • William Faulkner • woodcut • Writing • W. S. Hartshorn • Yale • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21089-6 / 0691210896
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21089-6 / 9780691210896