Walker Evans

"You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth" -- or so say the titles of Simmons and Burke's extravagant sound and image collages at Kim Light/LightBox. But would you want to, if this is what it looked like and sounded like, if this is how it made you feel?...

Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion That title may be the perfect tongue-in-cheek label for this retrospective of a 6-foot, 7-inch, 350-pound artist who presents himself as a hilariously creative lummox. A fan of Buster Keaton and a student of Paul...

Photographs keep a subject alive and at the same time mark its passing. The friction between a photograph's perpetual now and its memorial then can saturate an image with poignancy -- the reprieve of preservation tempering a wrenching sense of loss. This...

Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...

Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (June 29-Sept. 14 at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton). We play in it, loll on it, build castles out of it, and wash it out of our hair, but what, exactly, does sand mean? Its physical and metaphysical significance is...

The 83 black-and-white photographs in Robert Frank's "The Americans" (Steidl: 180 pp., $39.95) are bound by an intense sense of loneliness, whether they evoke a New York City cocktail party, a St. Petersburg, Fla., bus bench or a funeral in St. Helena, S....

Daring to Look Dorothea Lange's Photographs & Reports From the Field Anne Whiston Spirn University of Chicago Press: 352 pp., $40 Dorothea Lange's photograph "Migrant Mother" (1936), which shows a plaintive, destitute woman surrounded by her...

Dorothea Lange's photograph "Migrant Mother" (1936), which shows a plaintive, destitute woman surrounded by her children at the height of the Depression, secured her place as one of the most distinguished documentary photographers of all time. That...

Beneath the Roses Photos by Gregory Crewdson, essay by Russell Banks Abrams, 140 pages, $60 Norman Rockwell brought us a singular vision of small-town America, as did Edward Hopper. Now photographer Gregory Crewdson has created a new, uniquely...

FILM design is about creating an atmosphere in which a story can be told. Whether it is a black college in Marshall, Texas, circa 1935 or a futuristic galaxy, the concern is to be true to the story as well as to the period and place in which it is to be...

A new exhibition draws from the tool-themed art of hardware store magnate John Hechinger, with more than 65 paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs and sculptures, including works by Claes Oldenburg, William Eggleston, Walker Evans and others....

CALIFORNIA 'Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection' A new exhibition draws from the tool-themed art of hardware store magnate John Hechinger, with paintings, sculptures, drawings and photos, including works by Claes Oldenburg, William Eggleston,...