Walker Evans
"Untitled" (thinly painted arrow pointing left), ca. 1973/74
Color polaroid photograph, 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
"Evans liked to photograph signs, graffiti, posters. Sometimes this produces an irony that is a little heavy-handed, like his photo of workmen loading a giant sign reading “Damaged” onto a truck early in the Depression. Should we read his recurring interest in photographing words as an indication of frustrated literary ambitions, or its opposite, a way of making clear, in a playfully hostile manner, that he now had the upper hand over written language? Either tendency would indicate that literature remained an essential model."
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"Untitled" (thinly painted arrow pointing left), ca. 1973/74
Color polaroid photograph, 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
- bill 10-21-2004 1:22 am
- bill 10-21-2004 1:23 am [add a comment]
"Evans liked to photograph signs, graffiti, posters. Sometimes this produces an irony that is a little heavy-handed, like his photo of workmen loading a giant sign reading “Damaged” onto a truck early in the Depression. Should we read his recurring interest in photographing words as an indication of frustrated literary ambitions, or its opposite, a way of making clear, in a playfully hostile manner, that he now had the upper hand over written language? Either tendency would indicate that literature remained an essential model."
- bill 10-21-2004 1:53 am [add a comment]