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The Cruel Radiance of Walker Evans
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The Cruel Radiance of Walker Evans
BY JULIE ARDERY
Walker Evans
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston On display through March 4
What would we see without Walker Evans? It was he who showed us gas stations as architecture, the somber authority of barber chairs and movie posters peeling into unexpected wit.
Now, thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's current retrospective of the photographer's career (at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts through March 4), both Evan's eccentricity and his resounding influence come staring through: a shy, brittle personality that somehow managed to shape a nation's ...
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