Peter Sekaer: Signs of Life - Hill John T.
photographs by Peter Sekaer
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Peter Sekaer (1901-50) emerged as an artist in the company of Ben Shahn, Berenice Abbott, and Walker Evans. This book intends to show how he stepped from their benign shadows to build his own distinctive style. It is the first monograph to show the full range of his accomplishments. Sekaer's early work combines dispassionate images with others that show his concern and intuitive grasp of the human condition. Many of his most memorable photographs were made while fulfilling mundane assignments for various government agencies. Sekaer had none of the reformer's passion found in the works of Jacob Riis or Lewis Hine. His stance was more that of the artist/anthropologist, who delighted in recording the artifacts and gestures that defined American society in the 1930s. John T. Hill is a photographer, designer, and formerly Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Yale University. He first became attracted to Sekaer's work in his capacity as executor of the Walker Evans estate. He is co-author of Walker Evans:...
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Original boards, dust jacket, 4to.; Still shrink wrapped. [Auteur: Hill, John T. & Julian Cox & Christina Sekaer] [Pagina's: 198] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Atlanta/Göttingen : High Museum of Art/Steidl] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer]
