ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN: “SELECT PICTURES FROM THE FSA PROJECT”
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Ben Shahn: Jim Crow, Suspicious Looks and an American Economic Collapse
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WALKER EVANS: “DRIVE-BY PICTURES”
Walker Evans, pictures taken from a moving automobile or train. EXPLORE ALL WALKER EVANS ON ASX (© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
An Interview with Ben Shahn: Communism, Walker Evans, the FSA and the Arts (1965)
“So I asked my brother to get me a camera. I’d seen one in a camera shop, a Leica for $25. I said, ‘You get it for me; and if I can’t get anything in a magazine off the first roll,’ – I was pretty cocky – ‘then I’ll give it back to you.’” […]