Word: louisan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics have called "magical." Apparently carefree but quick on the trigger, Cartier-Bresson has snapped unforgettable, revelatory pictures of commonplace and sub-commonplace scenes, from bare French cafe tables to Mexicans with their pants down. Closest to him among U. S. photographers is a 35-year-old ex-St. Louisan with an inquiring nose and an unobtrusive but exacting eye. Walker Evans began with simple equipment ten years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American Photographs...
Last week he returned to the Philippines to visit the present Governor General, Dwight Filley Davis, aristocratic St. Louisan.* Local observers thought they intended negotiations with Japan regarding the great influx of Japanese at Davao, Island of Mindanao, where the Japanese have aroused the natives' ire by gaining control of more than 50% of the hemp industry...