Walker Evans & company

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Walker Evans & company

Peter Galassi

Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c2000

  • MoMA : hbk
  • MoMA : pbk
  • Abrams : cloth

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Walker Evans and company

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Catalog of an exhibition held Mar. 16-July 26, 2000

"Under the banner MoMA2000, The Museum of Modern Art has engaged in a wide-ranging exploration of modern art through its own collections, in the form of a series of exhibitions, publications, and other initiatives over a seventeen-month period from the fall of 1999 to early 2001. Walker Evans & Company is part of the second of the three cycles that constitute this ambitious project. Titled Making Choices, this cycle focuses on the years between 1920 and 1960"--P. 6

"Walker Evans & Company aims to encourage curiosity about a crucial innovation within the tradition of modernist photography that took shape in the 1920s and 1930s"--P. 7

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index of artists

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Walker Evans's radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising, movies, and car culture as central images of modern American identity. Published in conjunction with the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions (MoMA2000) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book focuses on Evans as a central figure in the arts of the 1920s and 1930s.This superbly illustrated volume includes works in photography and other mediums that influenced Evans or were influenced by him, or which resonate in a significant way with aspects of his imagery, sensibility, and style. Among the other artists whose work is featured are: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Stuart Davis, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, August Sander, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston.

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