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Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and ...
Walker Evans photograph of three sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, summer 1936. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the Great Depression.
It was during its use as a parts warehouse that Walker Evans took his famous photograph of it [9] in 1935 or 1936, displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [10] [3] [5] [11] In 1940, it was purchased by the Southside Baptist Church, which added a sanctuary abutting the house on one side and a detached Sunday school building on the other ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The Estate of Walker Evans saw the series as a copyright infringement, and acquired Levine's works to prohibit their sale. [11] Levine later donated the whole series to the estate. All of it is now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [12] Levine's appropriation of Evans's images has since become a hallmark of the postmodern ...
At ten he got a copy of Walker Evans's book, American Photographs, which influenced him greatly. [4] At age fourteen, Shore naively contacted Edward Steichen , then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, if he would have a look at his photographs, and Steichen was kind enough to buy three black and white ...
The outgoing head of Ohio's troubled teachers retirement system said that she is leaving the fund in strong fiscal condition, despite the turmoil at the top that her successor will inherit. In a ...
A balance spring, or hairspring, is a spring attached to the balance wheel in mechanical timepieces. It causes the balance wheel to oscillate with a resonant frequency when the timepiece is running, which controls the speed at which the wheels of the timepiece turn, thus the rate of movement of the hands.