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Walker Evans: Chicago: a photo-essay: Fortune magazine, February 1947 (via fulltable)
Friday, 29 July 2011
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FAVOURITES
- A Diary
- A Few Steps Back
- After the Taking of the Ship
- "All I want to do..."
- A New Light
- Anxious Passer
- "A point is fixed..."
- A Precarious Stability
- "As we on living..."
- At the Fair (I): Pie Town
- At the Fair (II): Reality
- At the Fair (III): Jockey Street/Juke Joint
- Back
- Beacon
- Black-Necked Stilt
- Bliss
- Blue Evening on Poetry Street
- Boats
- Breaking the Ice
- Buson: Winter Rain
- Canyonesque
- Cinematic
- Cloud Forest
- Curve
- Crux (A Bumpersticker)
- Distant Thunder
- Double Feature
- Earth: From a Distance
- Effigy
- Empty Vessel
- Epitaph for Rent
- Ezra Pound: Separation on the River Kiang
- Ezra Pound: The black panther lies under his rose-tree
- Fabrication
- Feeling for the Ground
- Fidelity (Later)
- Final Farewell
- Firecat in Nature Theatre (Wallace Stevens: Earthy Anecdote)
- For Edward Dorn
- For Edward Dorn (II): Wind River Canyon in Snow
- From the Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Weighing of the Heart of the Scribe
- Full Moon through Clouds (February)
- Gaudier-Brzeska: Fauna
- Hazard Response
- Heavy
- Here
- Humility
- Ideology
- "If you play..."
- Image Dialogues
- In Bill's Backyard, Bolinas
- In Bolinas (1970-1971)
- In the Forest of the Nearsighted Philologist
- In the Wood, In the Reeds
- In the World (Wittgenstein)
- Jim Carroll
- Keats: Coda: Echo and Variation
- Kingfishers
- Lake Affect
- Later Johnson: The Black Dog
- Leap: Diademed Sifaka
- Let It Come Down (The Dust Bowl)
- Living Colours
- Market
- Medium
- Memorial for Majesty
- Mild: Sea Otter
- Mirroring
- Misticism
- Mnemonic
- Momentary Visitor
- Muezzin
- Mute
- Natural Science
- Night City
- Night Sun: Black Jaguar
- Now She Dwells Here
- Only Here: Russell Lee in the West (1940-1942)
- Paradiso Terrestre
- Peanuts
- Penny on the Tracks
- Persistence of Memory
- Peter Orlovsky: Namaste
- Piping Plover
- Playing Dead: Opossum
- Primeval
- Problems of Life: Wittgenstein
- Prolepsis
- Public
- Robert Bresson: Cinema
- Rojo (Red Garland)
- Serious
- Shadow
- Single
- Shelter
- Some Late Johnsoniana
- Southeast Wind
- Species
- Starlight and Shadow
- Sweet Thing: Rat
- Sterne: A White Bear
- Syntax Lost in the Forest
- The Apparitional Canoe
- The Descent
- "The detail and the deeper meaning of everything American": Remembering the FSA Photo Project
- The Mutabilitie of the Englishe Lyrick
- Theodor Adorno: Behind the Mirror
- The Rainbow
- The Ring of Kerry
- The Self-Unseeing
- Thrall
- Ticky Tacky
- Twenty-Something Couple
- Uncoiling
- Ungaretti: What would I want with images?
- Unwinding the Clock: Time in Tristram Shandy
- Urban Pastoral Scene (mid-1940s)
- Vagrant
- Vallejo: The Vedic Fiber
- Vigilant: Least Weasel
- Waitress
- Walter Benjamin: A Map of Hell (1938)
- Walter Benjamin: The Subversive Mickey Mouse, or Disincorporation Phobia (1931)
- Water Mill, Mist and Fog, Evening
- "We've Been Blown Out": Dorothea Lange
- Whistle Buoy
- White Monkey
- White Moon
- Wittgenstein: Is Understanding Possible?
- Wittgenstein: The Visual Room
- Wyo-Booming, 1979 (I)
- Wyo-Booming, 1979 (II)
6 comments:
Tom,
Flash in the pan, Pan in the weeds, and after less than a century of progress, look where we've come . . . .
7.29
light coming into fog against invisible
ridge, towhee calling chweeeee chweeeee
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
event which names forgotten
occurrence, “subject”
whether one side or another,
not to have been, was
grey white of fog against top of ridge,
shadowed green pine on tip of sandspit
Peg Leg Bates !!!! WOW!
traveled with the Ink Spots
also both frequently played on bill with Sophie Tucker my grandmother used to take me to Club Kavokas and the Casino Royal to see them
long about the 1950's
I see now in my mind Peg Leg Bates "winging 'it' "
Ah, Steve, progress -- another flash in the pan in the wonderful deep-fry of history.
Talking of nostagia, it's almost unimaginable from a "contemporary perspective" that Evans was given good money and significant editorial power by a magazine subscribed to almost exclusively by the very rich, and allowed to exhibit work like this in its pages.
And not only that, Ed, but way over on the right end of the Oriental Theater marquee, and thus unfortunately clipped out of the picture here, is the announcement of the headliner on the bill, "Mr. Cleanhead," Eddie Vinson.
They knew how to chop and change in those days... even if it was an
event [in] which names [are now] forgotten
we used to make root-beer floats using Dad's Root Beer
in the summer over by the ice-cream cooler we set up a table & I was the soda-jerk
now, 60 + years later, I'm just a by-gone jerk!
we also sold a lot of Joe Louis (chocolate) Drink
& frozen Three Musketeers & tons of penny candy
Ed,
Not a word of it. You're just coming into your own.
Root beer was always my favorite flavour in Life Savers.
PS. Some home town stuff for you today, here.
These individual images are all striking and stirring. Collected and composed here, they're very moving. Like everyone, I'm sure, seeing the theater marquee advertising the Ink Spots really grabs me. I suppose the next two pets in our house, whenever they appear, will need to be Coke and Poke. Curtis
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