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Drew Yost

Walker Evans and photography - World Socialist Web Site - 0 views

www.wsws.org/...evan-m03.html

#class #evans #photography

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      Drew Yost on 04 Oct 13
       
      This article contains quite a bit of history regarding the history of photography, its categorization as art, and the life and work of Walker Evans.  The article calls Evans' a "great witnessing master of medium."  It discusses the reality captured in photography during the time period in which Allie Mae Burrough was photographed.
Joanna Ng

The power of photography - 0 views

www.socialismtoday.org/50/photography.html#The echoes of social reality: Walker Evans (1903-1975)

#class #reality #walkerevansphotos

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    Socialism Today goes deeper into the world of photography, and offers us in-depth insight into the mindsets and meaning behind certain photos and photographers, including Evans and "the echoes of social reality."
Alexa Mason

Photographs from the FSA and OWI - 0 views

memory.loc.gov/...fachap04.html

#america #class #WalkerEvans #NewYork #photography

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  • Census records, real estate guides, and fire insurance maps draw a profile of the neighborhood in the 1930s. Situated at the southern end of the city's Yorkville District, the block was predominantly Italian, although many Irish and Poles lived on nearby East Side streets. The population grew during the decade, with most families living in rented three- or four-room apartments or in "rooming and lodging" houses built before 1900. Most buildings provided shared toilets and tubs, and nearly all residents had electricity or gas for cooking and lighting. Rents ranged from ten to fifty dollars per month. Residents either rode public transportation (a tramway ran parallel to East Sixty-first Street and the EL traveled along Second Avenue) or walked; few owned automobiles. A Roman Catholic church--identified as Our Lady of Perpetual Help on a 1934 map--adjoined a parochial school facing East Sixty-second Street. Many small businesses served the neighborhood, and a few larger concerns like warehouses and a laundry that served a citywide clientele.11
  • Alexa Mason on 07 Oct 13
     
    This webpage is from the Library of Congress. It includes twenty photographs taken by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. The photographs portray a New York City block in the 1930s. According to the Library of Congress, the census and real estate guides to place the block within a historical context. The webpage describes not only Evans' career and photography style but the analysis of the subject, this particular New York City block, provides the reader with background such as the types of households, tenants and businesses that occupied this neighborhood during this time.
eugene yates

Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife - 1 views

www.metmuseum.org/...hd_evan.htm

#class #walkerevans #alabamafarmerwife

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  • The progenitor of the documentary tradition in American photography, Evans had the extraordinary ability to see the present as if it were already the past, and to translate that knowledge and historically inflected vision into an enduring art. His principal subject was the vernacular—the indigenous expressions of a people found in roadside stands, cheap cafés (1971.646.35), advertisements (1987.1100.59), simple bedrooms, and small-town main streets. For fifty years, from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, Evans recorded the American scene with the nuance of a poet and the precision of a surgeon, creating an encyclopedic visual catalogue of modern America in the making.
  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a lyric journey to the limits of direct observation. Its 500 pages of words and pictures is a volatile mix of documentary description and intensely subjective, even autobiographical writing, which endures as one of the seminal achievements of twentieth-century American letters. Evans' photographs for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men are stunningly honest representations of the faces (2001.415), bedrooms, and clothing of individual farmers living on a dry hillside seventeen miles north of Greensboro, Alabama. As a series, they seem to have elucidated the whole tragedy of the Great Depression; individually, they are intimate, transcendent, and enigmatic. For many, they are the apogee of Evans' career in photography.
  • David McLellan on 04 Oct 13
     
    This is a background into the style and history of the photographer of Allie Mae Burroughs, Walker Evans.  He was especially known for taking simplistic photographs and portraits of people in their natural surrounding and settings and by doing so Evans provided a documentary of what life was like in depression era America.  
  • eugene yates on 07 Oct 13
     
    This site contains a summary of who Walker Evans was and what his photography symbolizes. Within this site many images taken by Evans can be found along with essays and notes on the materials and techniques used.
Joanna Ng

The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans - 0 views

walkerevans.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/essay

#class #iconic #Alabama

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    This essay by Amanda C. Burdan gives us a larger scope of Evans and his journey through photography while keeping the central point his iconic 'Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife' photo.
Joanna Ng

Walker Evans in His Own Words - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

#class #insight #documentary

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    A real treat, this YouTube video is a peek into the mind of Walker Evans and his photography during the 1930s. He speaks of his work, his journey, and hearing it come from his point of view and voice makes a huge impression.
eugene yates

Time-LightBox - 0 views

lightbox.time.com/...ker-evans-american-photographs

#class #halecounty #time

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  • Joanna Ng on 04 Oct 13
     
    This site offers a collection of Evans' photos, all full of elements that if one were to be taken away, it would be incomplete. In a time of despair and hopelessness, Evans captured beauty and contradiction while providing a deeper insight to the world rather than what is on the surface.
  • eugene yates on 08 Oct 13
     
    This article by Time magazine (where he worked as an editor from the 1940's to the mid 1960's) shows several images taken by Walker Evans from the 1930's that are diverse in subject matter and composition. On this site I came to understand how the irony that makes Evans' photography so remarkable. This site is useful in exploring this image because it provides other images to compare and contrast.As well as providing a glimmer of an understanding into his personality.
Jacqueline Alley

Dorothea Lange - 0 views

www.theartstory.org/artist-lange-dorothea.htm

#class #GreatDepression #documentary photography #immgrants

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 07 Oct 13
     
    Dorothea Lange was another photographer during the Great Depression. Her images were focused on sharecroppers, migrant workers, and displaced farmers. She shows the plight of the lower class. Dorothea Lange's most famous for her portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. She was a 32yr old mother who sold everything she owned to take care of her children, eating birds and frozen vegetables. Her collection is viewable on the right side gallery. She was able to document the hardships the lower class endured through her photographs.
eugene yates

American Photgraphs - 0 views

www.leveledmag.com/...raphs-75th-anniversary-edition

#class #dustbowl #moma

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  • eugene yates on 07 Oct 13
     
    This site contains contains an array of information on design, art, and photography. As it relates to this class, I found the site to me helpful because it puts Evans work in the historical context of the Great Depression.
Heidi Beckles

Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 - 1 views

www.high.org/...CollectionDetails.aspx

#class #greatdepression #poverty

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  • Heidi Beckles on 09 Oct 13
     
    This portrait was made by Walker Evans during the summer of 1936 when he and writer James Agee were on assignment for Fortune magazine. Their story on tenant farmers in the South was finally released as a book in 1941, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men". Critics of the time hailed the "naked realism" of Evans' stark portrayals, which would become iconic representations of American farming communities stricken by poverty during the Great Depression. This site is useful because it takes you in on the individual in the photo itself, allowing you to see the reverse effects of an unstable economy, in America where opportunity is to be boundless, especially for people that were considered the minority in this era.
David McLellan

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Diana Davies Photograph Collection - 0 views

www.folklife.si.edu/...davies.aspx

#gender #pride #history #photography

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  • Diana Davies is a well-known photographer of folk performers and festivals, who photographed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in its earlier years. The Davies photographs already held by the Rinzler Archives have been supplemented by a recent donation of additional photographs (contact sheets, prints, and slides) of the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Poor People's March on Washington, the Georgia Sea Islands, and miscellaneous personalities of the American folk revival.
  • David McLellan on 05 Nov 13
     
    This site gives a little background on the photographer, Diana Davies who documented the 1970 Christopher Street Gay Pride march. She was known for documenting many causes and festivals during her career as a photographer. Her photographs provide a historical documentation of the early days of the Gay Rights movement.
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