Tag Archives: Walker Evans

Lunch Time!

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Christopher George

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Lunchroom Buddies, New York City, 1931 (printed 1974) (50.1981.k) This glass plate negative was made on Second Avenue in Manhattan. Inscription on negative envelope: ‘LUNCHROOM BUDDIES [underlined] // New York about [crossed out] 1933? // Glass neg. … Continue reading →

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Walker Evans

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Christopher George

Walker Evans (1903-1975), [Woman in Cloche Hat and Pedestrians, Fulton Street, New York City], 1929 (344.1985) Walker Evans (1903-1975), [“The Grand Man” Astrologer’s Sign],1934-35 (31.2002) A pair of lesser-known, and perhaps appropriate, photos to commemorate the fact that Walker Evans … Continue reading →

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The prophecy of the stars

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Christopher George

Walker Evans, [“The Grand Man” Astrologer’s Sign, Georgia?], 1934-35 (31.2002) Vu, December 27, 1933 (2009.61.61) Vu, January 2, 1935 (2011.7.97) Vu, April 11, 1934 (2009.61.73) Vu, December 26, 1934 (2009.61.94) More about astrology and horoscopes can be read in many, … Continue reading →

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The Children of Raquira

Posted on May 29, 2015 by claartjevandijk

Alirio Casas, A drunk friend sleeping, 1982-1983 (3810.1992) Libia Murcia Esperanza, My parents on Good Friday, 1982-1983 (3803.1992) Carlos Torres, Procession of the Saints, 1982-1983 (3808.1992) Alirio Casas, My mother drinking coffee in the kitchen after she made dinner, 1982-1983 … Continue reading →

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Walker Evans: November 3, 1903

Posted on November 3, 2014 by claartjevandijk

Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans, October, 1974 (44.2004) Walker Evans, Shoeshine Sign in Southern Town, 1936 (50.1981.e) Walker Evans, [Dockworker with Shovel and Bottle, Havana], 1933 (130.1981) Walker Evans, Stamped Tin Relic, New York City, 1933 (50.1981.l)  

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Enough is enough?

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Christopher George

Walker Evans, Penny Pictures Display, Savannah, 1936 (50.1981.g) Leon Levinstein, Wall of photographs, ca. 1957 (2011.53.17) Leon Levinstein, [Untitled], ca. 1980, (139.1999) Weegee, Weegee in his Hollywood Studio, ca. 1950 (20282.1993) Bob Parent, [Weegee and Mel Harris with Weegee’s photographs … Continue reading →

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Sherrie Levine: Re-photographed Photographs of Reproductions of Photographs

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Renske van Leeuwen

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a group of conceptual artists—including Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Sherrie Levine—known as the Pictures generation, began using photography and appropriation techniques to examine the strategies and codes of visual representation. In 1981, … Continue reading →

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Walker Evans and the Dance

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Christopher George

Dance Index, photo by Walker Evans, “Afternoon de la Faune”; doors of rehearsal-hall with dancer’s graffiti; Metropolitan Opera House, Fall 1945, Vol. 2, No. 2, February 1946 (2007.16.56) Dance Index, photo by Walker Evans, George Balanchine addresses the dancers in … Continue reading →

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