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J Henry Fair | Posted 05.12.2013 | Arts
Read More: Photography, Art, Fine Art, Walker Evans, Francisco De Goya, Black Paintings, Las Meninas, Commercialism, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Arts News
J Henry Fair

It's often been observed that one must leave the country of birth to see it more clearly, a truism that applies to politics, but also to art. The exhibit of Walker Evans at Die Photographische Sammlung in Köln is a perfect case in point.

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Return of the Straphanger Nation

Taras Grescoe | Posted 09.11.2012 | New York
Read More: New York Life, NYC Subways, My New York, Walker Evans, Ayn Rand, Subway, NY Around Town, New York City Transit, Slidewide, James Agee, Mass Transit, Straphangers, New York News
Taras Grescoe

We are all straphangers now and then: just people trying to share, and get around in, that greatest of all human creations, the city.

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PHOTOS: Stanley Kubrick's NYC Subway Photography

Posted 05.07.2012 | New York
Read More: Stanley Kubrick, Walker Evans, New York City Subway, Museum of the City of New York, Ny News, Life and Love on the New York City Subway, Mta, New York News, Stanley Kubrick Photos, New York News

Following in the footsteps of Walker Evans, a young Stanley Kubrick, during his tenure as a staff photographer for Look magazine in the 1940s, capture...

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Street Photography And Surveillance, From '30s To Today

Posted 04.27.2012 | Arts
Read More: Photography, Bruce Davidson, Video, Street Photography, Beat Streuli, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Cosmopolitan, Washington DC, Slidewide, National Gallery of Art, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Voyeurism, Robert Frank, Arts News

Remember the game "I Spy," where kids look out the car window and look for specific objects which catch their little eyes? This notion of free play wi...

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David Plowden: Photographing The Soul Of America

Randy Fox | Posted 12.10.2011 | Travel
Read More: Photography, Davy Wv, Great Northern Freight Train, Walker Evans, Minor White, David Plowden, Havre Mt, A&p Grocery Store, Steam Engine, Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden, Locomotive, Wassau Wi, Chicago, Randy Fox, Small Town America, Train, American Elegy, Scranton, Pa, Travel Photography, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Randy Fox

From steam engines to gas stations to A&Ps, photographer David Plowden has been documenting the country for nearly 70 years -- and his pictures tell the story of change in America.

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'Soy Cuba!' Film Series & Exhibition At The Getty (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 08.10.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Cuban Revolution, The Getty Museum, Our Man in Havana, Video, Weekend to Do, Soy Cuba! Memories of Underground, Walker Evans, A Revolutionary Project: Cuba From Walker Evans to Now, Bag of Pigs, Walker Evans Photographs, La Around Town, Los Angeles News

This weekend, the Getty Museum hosts Soy Cuba!, a film series in conjunction with A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, currently on...

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Garry Winograd to Diane Arbus, Photography Masters At Pier 24, SF

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Photography, Photography Exhibitions, Photography-Exhibitions, Embarcadero, Walker Evans, Pier 24, Diane Arbus, Contemporary Art, San Francisco Art, Garry Winograd, San Francisco Exhibitions, Edward Weston, Slidefullscreen, Arts News

WHO: Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andreas Gursky...

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Off-Road Racing Accident Kills Eight: So Who's Responsible?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Mojave Desert, Los Angeles Coliseum, Southern California, Walker Evans, Dodge, Cycle World Magazine, Mickey Thompson, Bureau of Land Management, Ford, Off-Road, Petersen's 4wheel Off-Road, Barstow to Vegas, Sports News
Steve Parker

The horrific racing accident which took place this past weekend in the desert of Southern California now ranks among the top 10 racing disasters of all time.

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On the Culture Front: Arcade Fire, The Original Copy, The Black Keys and A Little Night Music

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: A Little Night Music, Angela Lansbury, Music, Marcel Duchamp, Theater, Elaine Stritch, Tim Burton, Stephen Sondheim, New York, Trevor Nunn, Bernadette Peters, Black Keys, Bruce Nauman, Arcade Fire, Walker Evans, Marina Abramovic, Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Zeta-Jones, New York News
Chris Kompanek

Both Arcade Fire and The Black Keys sound as good, or better, live, so I try to catch them when they come into town.

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