| ||||||||||||||
 San Francisco, 1956 By Tod Papageorge The purpose of this monograph is to describe the influence of Walker Evans’ American Photographs (1938) on The Americans (1959) of Robert Frank. To do this, the photographs in the two books have been edited and yoked together in a series of comparisons. What follows, then, is an exercise in speculation, one born of love and respect. It is offered as a working idea rather than an assured truth, a reasoned p…  By Tod Papageorge In April 2000, The Yale University Art Gallery purchased the 193 prints that compose Robert Adams’s What We Bought: The New World, a body of work that had been completed by the American photographer twenty-five years before. The unusual number, and quality, of these photographs distinguished this purchase as an extraordinary addition to the Gallery’s collections. Even more remarkable, however, was that the group as a whole c… ROBERT ADAMS: “Tod Papageorge on Robert Adams – The Missing Criticism – What We Bought”  …ought to imitate those other forms. STEPHEN SHORE: I’m talking about what you just said, about postcards and snapshots. Not all postcards, and not all snapshots. In fact, as you look at collections of amateur pictures today, you’ll find that everyone has been so educated visually, and that people are striving so hard to make “good” pictures, that it’s very hard to find that quality of the undetermined image. GIL BLANK: You’re talking abou… INTERVIEW: “Gil Blank and Stephen Shore in Conversation” (2007)  From Visions and Images: American Photographers on Photography, Interviews with photographers by Barbara Diamonstein, 1981–1982, Rizoli: New York Garry Winogrand is one of the most important photographers at work in America today. His sophisticated snapshot-aesthetic pictures celebrate ordinary events, and transform them with precise timing and framing into astute visual commentaries on modern life. Barbaralee Diamonstein: Garry, the Ne… | ||||||||||||||
| Copyright for all images and text,except for works in the public domain,rests wholly with American Suburb X LLC,the original publishers,authors,and/or photographers. Every reasonable effort has been made to clear necessary permissions to reproduce the content you see on this site. Copyright holders with removal requests or additional acknowledgement details and/or those looking to secure rights for usage are welcome to contact us at info@americansuburbx.com.© American Suburb X,LLC. 2011 |
