If someone has brought this up already, I apologize in advance. . . .
but here's an interesting quote from the March 13 issue of the New
Yorker magazine. The subject is Walker Evans and the exhibit of his
work now running at the Met:
"An Ansel Adams print leaves you wary of daring to take another
photograph ever again, for fear of falling short; it would be like
trying to cut your own diamonds. A Walker Evans, on the other hand,
makes you want to grab your scabby old Olympus and head for the
streets. It's not that you can do better--you would be lucky, in fact,
to do a hundred times worse--but your eyes have been rinsed and
descaled. The world out there suddenly seems like a movie show, and you
don't want to miss it."
Anthony Lane, from his article "The Eye of the Land", the New Yorker
magazine, 3/13/00.
Morgan Sparks
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