Volume 47, Number 5 · March 23, 2000
The Great Voyeur
By Henry Allen
Walker Evans 1-May 14, 2000; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 2-September 12, 2000; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 17, 2000-March 11, 2001.
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February, Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Morris Hambourg, by Jeff L. Rosenheim, by Douglas Eklund, by Mia Fineman
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton University Press, 318 pp., $45.00 (paper)
Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology
by Jeff L. Rosenheim, by Douglas Eklund
Scalo/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 247 pp., $39.95
In an age of the artist-as-exhibitionist, Walker Evans was a voyeur, peering at the world through the curtains of his hooded eyes, then taking his devastating, disinterested, and transcendent pictures and slipping away. 'Stare,' he once said, recalling lessons learned from the cafés of Paris in the 1920s. 'It is the only way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop…. I stare and stare at people, shamelessly.'
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