On Wednesday February 1st, The Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University will be opening their first exhibition for this year.
This exhibition will feature the photographic works of Walker Evans (1903-1975). It is a presentation of a broad survey of a fifty-year career, one that showcases images of life on small-town streets, New York subways, and on the porches of sharecroppers. In turn, these works would inspire future generations of photographers, and would help shape contemporary art.
The 125 featured works in this exhibition will be drawn from many aspects of Evans’ career, including a documentation of the Great Depression, on a study called Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, in which three tenant farm families in Alabama are documented. Also featured are rare photographs from 1928 to 1930, his subway series published in the monograph Many Are Called, photo-essays for Fortune Magazine, and rare Polaroid prints taken from his final years.
Four samples of the work of Walker Evans can be seen on the Cantor Arts’ website, each phase of his career giving a sample of each. These samples include an image of a sharecropper from Alabama, and various Broadway lights in New York City, both from the 1930s. Log on to museum.stanford.edu to view these samples, as well as acquire more information.
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