Assignment: Who was Walker Evans? How do the concerns of Evans work intersect with your work as a student in photography? What does Evans photography mean and, how does it fit in our current soci-cultural environment?
Be prepared for open class discussion to answer these questions on Wed., 17 Nov., 2004.
Walker Evans: Before + After - Walker Evans (1903-1975) did most of his best work in the 1930s, and his pictures have been celebrated as documents of the Great Depression. But his concerns ranged far beyond the troubles of the 1930s, and his inventive pursuit of descriptive photography laid the foundations of a robust creative tradition. His restless probing of American identity radically broadened the engagement of advanced photography—and of modern art—with the world outside the studio.
"Walker Evans"
Be prepared for open class discussion to answer these questions on Wed., 17 Nov., 2004.
Walker Evans: Before + After - Walker Evans (1903-1975) did most of his best work in the 1930s, and his pictures have been celebrated as documents of the Great Depression. But his concerns ranged far beyond the troubles of the 1930s, and his inventive pursuit of descriptive photography laid the foundations of a robust creative tradition. His restless probing of American identity radically broadened the engagement of advanced photography—and of modern art—with the world outside the studio.
"Walker Evans"
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Walker Evans from my research was a photographer who took pictures of the world as it was. In a documentary style. He was very different in his photography then Alfred Steglitz, who looks at photography more as an art. In fact Steglitz was one of the people who saught to make it an art. However dispite that Even's photos do have an artisit quality, but tell life as it is through his point of view, more as objects and symbols, or iconic pictures then only art to be pretty. He intersects with photo students because we too are now first viewing the world through the lense of a camera. It's our own interpertaion. Our pictures maybe purly artisitc and pretty, or some may freeze an important moment in time depending on what subject we're trying to capture.
Evens, took pictures for the Farm Security Admin. Along with people like Dorthea Lang. They were set out to record the state of the depression in various farms over the country and really recorded the devasation of poverty etc.
His photography something for people too look back on now and see how the US was not even 100 years ago. Todays culture is so different from then, and it's good to know your past and where you came from and what people lives like. It also helps us see what progress and regressions we've made as a society.
- Petra
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