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“If the thing is there, why, there it is.” Happy Birthday, Walker Evans
That last photo is Walker Evans’ innovative perspective of the parade for Charles Lindbergh after Lindbergh successfully crossed the Atlantic in 1927. It’s one of the first photos Evans took, and shows that he had a “good eye” from the … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Walker Evans
Biography of Walker Evans here. Below you will find a bunch of his photographs – interspersed with one of my favorite paragraphs from his collaboration with the brilliant James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Some of the photographs … Continue reading
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Un-guessed quote # 6 – This has now been guessed
Update: This is from James Agee’s amazing collaboration with Walker Evans “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” Here is this one. The clue I gave for this one is BRILLIANT, I have to say. I am QUITE proud of it. … Continue reading
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
This is an excerpt from James Agee’s amazing book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: