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Similar stories of steep appreciation can be told about the work of almost every other major 20th century photographer: Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, W. Eugene Smith, Diane Arbus and Imogen Cunningham, among the dead; Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer, Paul Caponigro, and Fashion Photographers Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, among the living. The great pictures of the 19th century are more expensive still. Last May two albums containing 100 early California and Oregon scenes by Carleton E. Watkins were sold for $198,000. "A print is amusing at $100," quips one art dealer...
...course, not all the photos in the show partake of surrealism. We still have a few descendants of the Ansel Adams-Minor White tradition, the makers of perfect, eloquent prints recording some aspect of nature with a lyrical gravity of inspection. Perhaps the best of them is Paul Caponigro, whose photographs of the prehistoric standing stones at Avebury in England (one of them looking surprisingly like Rodin's rough-hewn monument to Balzac) are of astounding fidelity to the substance they depict; every grain in the print corresponds, in some way, to the age and density of the rock...
...especially, have been interested in the "more imaginative" masters of the medium, beginning with Edward Steichen, proceeding through the epic or intimist nature poets (Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams) and finishing in an exponential growth of different styles in the '70s -Duane Michals' enigmatic fumetti, Paul Caponigro's monumental landscapes, and Jerry Uelsmann's surrealist montages. Meanwhile, LIFE and Look were the showcases for the documentary photographs: the picture magazines were their museum without walls, and it is now pitifully shrunk. To present the documentary photographer to a "serious" audience, an audacious venture has just...
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