From July 25 to November 9, 2014 the
exhibition “Walker Evans – Ein Lebenswerk (a life’s work)” can be seen at the
Martin-Gropius Building in Berlin.
Foto: Pabst Blue Ribbon Sign, Chicago, Illinois 1946
Collection of Clark and Joan Worswick Walker
© Evans Ealker Evans Archive
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On display are more than 200 original
prints from 1928 to 1974. They includes both some of his iconic work as well as rarely
published photographs from 50 years of his creative time. With its sober
recordings Walker Evans (1903-1975) shows a uniquely authentic picture of
America. He gained public attention for the first time with his documentation
of poverty in America in the times of the Great Depression in the 1930s. His
work is significant for the photographing style, which is referred to as
"documentary style." Over the decades up to the present the extensive
photographic work of Walker Evans continues to gain recognition as being a great
example for this style of photography.
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