The Genius of Photography 摄影演义后传- 15 XRP中国英语学习网
In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography's true genius. XRP中国英语学习网
America in the 1930s was in the grip of its own crisis. Walker Evans, one of the greatest photographers of the era, used his camera to lay them bare. XRP中国英语学习网
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“This is an image of American identity, of democracy, of all of these people--each one, each individual, the same size, therefore each individual having the same importance and everybody is there together. You can think of it as a positive thing in that way, or you could also think of it as a horribly rigid grid-like structure in which each person is isolated in their own little cell, and that nothing will ever change. That's the genius of Walker Evans that he is pretending that he is just giving you the facts. But he is, in fact, by the choice of the facts, influencing how you understand the world.”XRP中国英语学习网
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In an age of Utopias, Walker Evans was a dissident voice. "To hell with the liberals, intellectuals, artists and communists," he wrote in his diary at this time, "Human society is a failure." According to the writer James Agee, Evans' allegiance was to "the cruel radiance of what is."XRP中国英语学习网
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“The straightforwardness of his photographs is deceptive. It's like the silence of the detective, the silence of the inquisitor who, by saying less, forces the subject to speak too much until the subject breaks and reveals everything.”XRP中国英语学习网
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As a young man, Evans had wanted to be a writer. Like many others, he went to Paris to serve his apprenticeship. He spent his time failing to write, while effortlessly absorbing the latest trends in avant-garde photography. When he returned home, he began to photograph in a style straight from the pages of the film and photo catalogue. But he found his own distinctive voice, thanks to an old master--Eugène Atget, 5,000 of whose negatives have been brought over to America by Bernice Abbott.XRP中国英语学习网
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in the grip of: 受...控制XRP中国英语学习网
The United States was then in the grip of a world-wide business depressionXRP中国英语学习网
lay bare: To expose; reveal; divulge. XRP中国英语学习网
During his testimony the witness laid bare the whole story of his involvement with the accused.XRP中国英语学习网
to hell with: [informal] Used to express disgusted rejection of something. XRP中国英语学习网
To hell with the lot of you, I'll do what I please!XRP中国英语学习网
allegiance: Your allegiance is your support for and loyalty to a particular group, person, or belief.XRP中国英语学习网
My allegiance to Kendall and his company ran deep.XRP中国英语学习网 XRP中国英语学习网
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