John Edwin Mason writes:
>No doubt about it--it don't move much. I've been
>looking at a lot of Walker Evans and wondering how he
>made so much magic out of such seemingly uninflected,
>plainspoken images. This is something I've yet to
>figure out, but what better place to work on it than a
>farm in Brunswick County. More from Brunswick will
>appear in later galleries.
Evans' pictures are the result of a great intelligence and passion,
coupled with repeating compositional and conceptual ideas. Study
the work, make sketches, ask yourself how it works, why it
seduces you. There's a wealth of books on Evans' life. Learn about
the man.
--- Luis
