Walker Evans Exhibit at The Fenimore Museum
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 
The Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, NY is currently exhibiting the work of Depression Era photographer Walker Evans. An exhibit of Evans’s work would be reason enough to see this show, but there’s more. John T. Hill and Sven Martson ( who both were connected to Evans ) have scanned and reprinted ink jet interpretations of Evans’s most famous works.
This is an opportunity for some excellent discussion. The museum has some original 8×10 contact prints on display in the gallery with the ink jets, so it is easy to see and compare the separate presentations ( interpretations ) of the images. It is an amazing display of images and technology. There is also a small display of the type equipment that walker Evans used throughout his career.
The show is runs through December 31. The Fenimore Museum is open 10 to 5 daily through Columbus Day. It is across from the Farmer’s Museum. No photography is allowed in galleries. $ 11.00 admission. More info: fenimoreartmuseum.org
Here’s what Walker Evans said about the photographic process during an interview in 1971:
” It’s as though there’s a wonderful secret in a certain place, and I can capture it.
Only I can do it at this moment and only me.”
You have the same opportunity.