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Monday, February 16, 2009

EXHIBITION: Peachy recommends Walker at the Met!

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Through May 25-Metropolitan Museum of Art


This exhibition focuses on a collection of 9,000 picture postcards amassed and classified by the American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975), now part of the Museum's Walker Evans Archive. The picture postcard represented a powerful strain of indigenous American realism that directly influenced Evans's artistic development. The dynamic installation of hundreds of American postcards drawn from Evans's collection reveals the symbiotic relationship between the artist's own art and his interest in the style of the postcard. This is also demonstrated with a selection of about a dozen of his own photographs printed in 1936 on postcard format photographic paper. Whom You Know recommends checking it out!

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