A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana - (Page 144)

144 Man and Movie Poster (New Orleans, Louisiana or Vicksburg, Mississippi), 1936 Gelatin silver print; 6 x 7 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, through Joyce and Robert Menschel and Randi and Bob Fischer LOUISIANA: THE NEW CENTURY WALKER EVANS b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut Born in 1903, Walker Evans is recognized as “the preeminent photographer of his generation in America.” John Szarkowski, curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, described Evans’ photographs as “puritanically economical, precisely measured, frontal, unemotional, dryly textured, insistently factual,” and eloquently concluded that “his work constitutes a personal survey of the interior resources of the American tradition, a survey based on a sensibility that found poetry and complexity where most travelers had found only drab statistics or fairy tales.” Walker Evans was active as a photographer across much of the United States, yet a number of his iconic and most poetic photographs were created in New Orleans and along the River Road in Louisiana. Today they survive as significant art photographs and as historic documents of a transitional era, the years of the Great Depression in Louisiana. JRG  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1248 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1248

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