Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories Lesy Michael
Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories Lesy Michael In 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. Old, frail, with just two years left to live, Evans was…
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Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories Lesy Michael
In 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. Old, frail, with just two years left to live, Evans was still urgently and obsessively photographing. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photographs and newspaper clippings to evoke a devastatingly tragic epoch, the real-world antithesis of the fanciful "Gay Nineties." It startled readers then and remains a touchstone of modern photographic interpretation.That year Lesy met and became close friends with the great photographer Walker Evans, who in the 1930s had collaborated with writer James Agee to create another towering landmark in the American photo-essay, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
He photographed them in their passage." Brief as their "Outside the rooms he inhabited," Lesy writes, "the world was scattered with objects on their way to oblivion.