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{FREE} Walker Evans: Cuba Ebook Free Download WALKER EVANS: CUBA PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Andrei Codrescu | 96 pages | 19 May 2011 | Getty Trust Publications | 9781606060643 | English | Santa Monica CA, United States Fotos: Walker Evans en Cuba | Babelia | EL PAÍS On the level of style, his work might have been mistaken for that of a skilled if literal-minded commercial photographer. During the early s Evans had worked only occasionally and skeptically as a professional photographer, preferring to live precariously from occasional assignments, often from friends. The idea that he should be asked to make a photograph conceived by someone else was offensive to his ego; in addition, there were many sorts of photographs that he had never learned to make. Its assignment was to provide a photographic survey of rural America, primarily in the South. To the degree that the function of the unit was ever defined, its goal was less history than a form of political persuasion. In any case it afforded Evans the means of traveling, generally alone and without immediate financial concerns, in search of the material for his art. His subjects were on the surface resolutely prosaic and artless, yet it can be argued that what he demanded of them was quality—he demanded that they be exemplary of the brave, groping, sometimes comic effort to create a built culture that would be consonant with an unprecedented nation. It is remarkable that more than a third of the pictures were made during the brief but astonishingly productive 18 months when Evans was employed by the FSA. American Photographs , with a critical essay by Lincoln Kirstein , remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the modern era. During the late summer of Evans was on leave from the FSA to work for Fortune magazine with writer James Agee on a study of three sharecropping families from Hale county, Alabama. The project never appeared in Fortune , but it was finally published in as the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , surely one of the oddest and most challenging books that have attempted to make sense of the combination of words and photographs. Agee wrote his text, full of High Church extravagance, which was prefaced by a portfolio of 31 unlabeled photographs—bound together at the front of the book—by Evans. These photographs are as reticent and Puritan in style as could be imagined, capturing every aspect of the three families—their houses, their rooms, their furniture, their land. And yet, in spite of the absence of vulgar prying, the viewer thinks he knows the so- called Ricketts, Woods, and Gudgers better than any star in the tabloids, perhaps partly because they seem collaborators in the design of their portraits. In Evans was hired by Time, Inc. He continued to photograph architecture, especially rural churches, and he also began a series of revealing, spontaneous photographs of people taken in the New York City subways; the series was eventually published in book form as Many Are Called in In he began teaching in the School of Art and Architecture of Yale University, and in the following year he retired from Time, Inc. Yet, as the promise of the magazines began to lose its lustre, Evans increasingly became a hero to younger photographers who were not comfortable as part of an editorial team. Robert Frank , Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus , and Lee Friedlander are among the most significant later photographers who have acknowledged their debt to Evans. His influence on artists in fields other than photography has also been great. Article Contents. Home Visual Arts Photography. Print print Print. Table Of Contents. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Author of The Photographer's Eye, Atget, and others. The images — out of a total of taken during his one-month sojourn, betray that influence in photos of facades and streets. Some of them show more isolated, intimate scenes in public, from a haggard looking country family to beggars. The politically-charged atmosphere led Evans to give Hemingway the prints that would, in turn, be taken to Key West by boat. Unlike later prints, most of these are uncropped, and slightly different. Follow nytimesphoto on Twitter. You can also find Lens on Facebook and Instagram. Credit European Pressphoto Agency. Site Navigation Site Mobile Navigation. Supported by. Meant to New York. 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