Date: Ongoing every week from February 2, 2012 through April 8, 2012. 12:15 PM.
Location: Cantor Arts Center, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way and Lomita Drive
American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975), with his direct and unsentimental images of life on small-town streets, in New York subways, and on sharecroppers’ porches, inspired generations of photographers and helped shape contemporary art. Drawn entirely from the deep holdings of Randi and Bob Fisher, this retrospective encompasses Evans’s 50-year career, including his brilliant documentation of the Great Depression and his work with James Agee on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; his little-known experimental photographs from 1928–30; the subway series (1938–41) later published in the monograph Many Are Called; photo-essays for Fortune magazine (1945–65); and rare Polaroid SX-70 prints from his final years.
Location: Cantor Arts Center, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way and Lomita Drive
American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975), with his direct and unsentimental images of life on small-town streets, in New York subways, and on sharecroppers’ porches, inspired generations of photographers and helped shape contemporary art. Drawn entirely from the deep holdings of Randi and Bob Fisher, this retrospective encompasses Evans’s 50-year career, including his brilliant documentation of the Great Depression and his work with James Agee on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; his little-known experimental photographs from 1928–30; the subway series (1938–41) later published in the monograph Many Are Called; photo-essays for Fortune magazine (1945–65); and rare Polaroid SX-70 prints from his final years.