An American photographer, Walker Evans (1903-1975) was best known for his photographs of American life between the world wars. Everyday objects and people--the urban and rural poor, abandoned building...
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Walker Evans was, quite simply, "the most influential American photographer of the twentieth century," according to Bruce Jackson's appraisal posted on the University of Buffalo Art Gallery Web site. ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The entire archive of New York
photographer Diane Arbus -- known for her images of dwarfs,
nudists and carnival performers -- has found a home at the
Metropolitan Museum of Ar...
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I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago...
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I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ag...
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Five hundred works of art: Just thinking about taking in so many
during the course of one exhibition is enough to provoke a migraine. What
single artist has created that much, let alone that much w...
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Five hundred works of art: Just thinking about taking in so many during the course of one exhibition is enough to provoke a migraine. What single artist has created that much, let alone that much w...
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Mary Lucier is no Sacha Baron Cohen.
You may remember Mr. Cohen masquerading at a Virginia rodeo as the hapless Kazakh journalist in Borat. As seen in the film, the cowboy spectacle is a haven for...
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With a successful emphasis on the youth-oriented sport-compact market over the past 20 years, Advanced Engine Management (AEM) is a performance company that has gone largely unnoticed in the off-ro...
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The photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971), on the evidence of Revelations, a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was incapable of taking a bad picture. Each and every photograph on disp...
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans
Photographer Diane Arbus' archive given to NY's Met
