Finest show of "documentary" photographs in many a season was the Walker Evans show last autumn at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Last week in Chicago appeared a complement to it. Shown at the Katharine Kuh galleries were 100 new prints by the able California photographer, Edward Weston.
Walker Evans, 35, and Edward Weston, 52, were born in St. Louis and Highland Park, Ill., respectively, but Evans went east and Weston went west. Like most artists of his generation, Evans got as far east as Paris. He returned to photograph life on the eastern...
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