Walker Evans - Kitchen Corner Richon Olivier Professor and Head of Programme Royal College of ArtPaperback
Walker Evans - Kitchen Corner Richon Olivier Professor and Head of Programme Royal College of ArtPaperback An examination of one of Walker Evans's iconic photographs of the Great Depression.Kitchen…
Specifikacia Walker Evans - Kitchen Corner Richon Olivier Professor and Head of Programme Royal College of ArtPaperback
Walker Evans - Kitchen Corner Richon Olivier Professor and Head of Programme Royal College of ArtPaperback
An examination of one of Walker Evans's iconic photographs of the Great Depression.Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of an Alabama sharecropper. The 1960 reissue of Evans and Agee's book had an enormous impact on Americans' perceptions of the Depression, creating a memory-image retrospectively through Walker's iconic photographs and Agee's text. Taken in 1936 by Walker Evans as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration, Kitchen Corner was not published until 1960, when it was included in a new edition of Walker Evans and James Agee's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
The photograph is particularly significant, he argues, because it uses a documentary In this latest addition to the Afterall One Work series, photographer Olivier Richon examines Kitchen Corner.