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2013-07-22
Walker Evans created a collective portrait of the Eastern United States during a decade of profound transformation, one that coincided with the flood of everyday images, both still and moving, from an expanding mass culture and the construction of a Modernist history of photography.
Comprising approximately 60 prints from the MoMA collection that were included in the 1938 book or exhibition, the installation maintains the bipartite organization of the originals: the first section portrays American society through images of its individuals and social contexts, while the second consists of photographs of American cultural artifacts, the architecture of Main streets, factory towns, rural churches, and wooden houses. The pictures provide neither a coherent narrative nor a singular meaning, but rather create connections through the repetition and interplay of pictorial structures and subject matter.
Exhibition runs through till January 26th, 2014
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019-5497
www.moma.org