This major retrospective of the work of American photographer Walker Evans displays some 175 vintage prints from public and private collections, and draws on newly available material from the photographer's archive.
Evans worked with little concern for the ideological agenda or the suggested itineraries and instead answered a personal need to distill the essence of American life from the simple and the ordinary.
The dynamic installation of hundreds of American postcards drawn from Evans’s collection reveals the symbiotic relationship between his art and his interest in the style of the postcard.
Nothing in Florida is quite what it seems. A popular tourist destination since the early twentieth century, it is a place where fantasy and reality collide, a subtropical paradise threatened by hurricanes and rising sea levels, a refuge for extremi…
This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935, about a portfolio of photographs made by Evans in conjunction with a historic show of African art.
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