Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Hungry Eye: Walker Evans

The Hungry Eye: Walker Evans

The stark, deceptively simple photographs of Walker Evans have become a part of America’s collective memory, forever capturing the places and faces of times long gone. In this program, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez outlines Evans’ life while talking with Jeff Rosenheim, curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Evans’ close friend William Christenberry, about the late photographer’s approach to his art, his collaboration with writer James Agee on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, his love of advertising signage, and other topics. (15 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10944
Copyright date: ©2000
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-2236-6
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-2446-3


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