Walker Evans: Florida (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)

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American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for his portraits of Depression-era The us, quite a few that have been included in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), his famous collaboration with creator James Agee. In 1942 on the behest of retired journalist Karl Bickel, Evans journeyed to Sarasota to take photographs for the Mangrove Coast, a book Bickel was once writing about the long and colorful history of Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Featured in Walker Evans: Florida are the surprising images Evans took all through that six-week stay within the area, which constitute a bit of-known chapter in Evans’s distinguished career. Far from stereotypical postcard pictures of sandy beaches and palm trees, Evans captured a region of contradictions. Here within the nation’s seaside vacationland, Evans focused his lens on decaying architecture, crowded street scenes, retirees, and a large number of images of animals, railroad cars, and circus wagons from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, whose winter home was once Sarasota.
Accompanying the fifty-two images in Walker Evans: Florida is novelist Robert Plunket’s wry account of the human and geographic landscape of Florida.

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