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Self-Portraits, Juan-les-Pins, France
Walker Evans American
Not on view
A Francophile since high school, Walker Evans spent a year in Paris from 1926 to 1927 attempting to learn the tools of the writing trade by reading and translating modern French literature from Charles Baudelaire to Blaise Cendrars. He traveled with a small handheld camera and began to make street snapshots in the innovative style espoused by László Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus. Among his first subjects was his own shadow—a projection of both the avant-garde prose writer he desired to be and the photographer he would become.
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