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Documenting Walker Evans''s lifelong fascination with the picture postcard

The eight scrupulously tritone dry-trap printed postcards that make up A Gallery of Postcards were originally produced by Walker Evans in 1936 by contact printing sections of his 8 x 10-inch negatives onto the smaller Kodak gelatin silver postcard stock. This edition comes with an essay by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art''s 2000 Walker Evans exhibition, from which these postcards are drawn. Like a poet refining an idea word by word, Evans often clarified and intensified the meanings of his pictures by trimming his prints just slightly to present the leanest possible image, Rosenheim writes. With the postcards he took that impulse to another level. Evans was a master of the edge and one of the mediums greatest precisionists.

Walker Evans A Gallery of Postcards

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      Publisher: Eakins Press,N.Y.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2000
      ISBN13: 9780871300607, 978-0871300607
      ISBN10: 0871300605

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Documenting Walker Evans''s lifelong fascination with the picture postcard

      The eight scrupulously tritone dry-trap printed postcards that make up A Gallery of Postcards were originally produced by Walker Evans in 1936 by contact printing sections of his 8 x 10-inch negatives onto the smaller Kodak gelatin silver postcard stock. This edition comes with an essay by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art''s 2000 Walker Evans exhibition, from which these postcards are drawn. Like a poet refining an idea word by word, Evans often clarified and intensified the meanings of his pictures by trimming his prints just slightly to present the leanest possible image, Rosenheim writes. With the postcards he took that impulse to another level. Evans was a master of the edge and one of the mediums greatest precisionists.

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