Photographed The Face: He photo-jraphed the statues in the park at Versailles, and statues in the medieval churches in Paris. These he sold to the 'arisian museums. But he did not limit himself to works (fart and historic monuments: he photographed the face if Paris in all its aspects: shop fronts and carriages of all ores, the little people who earn their living peddling imbtellas or lampshades, delivering bread or wheeling jushcarts. He photographed inside palaces, bourgeois icmes, and ragpickers' hovels. He photographed trees ind flowers and fallen autumn leaves. Each of these cate-$ories is a series comprising hundreds of photographs. For Atget was in truth, as Calmettes wrote, a collector. He ms, too, a picture maker, un imagier, in the words of his iiend.
Your advertising should be beamed at the children and grandchildren, urging them to write in for the cards, which they can then pass along to the honored couple. This gets the grandparents over the modesty hurdle and they will be more likely to come for a sitting, "because someone they love wants them to be photographed."
Your exhibit can be personal, with invitations restricted to the couples photographed, and their relatives and friends, or it can be a big public event promoted as a program honoring a generation that has contributed much to the community.
Much of what Evans photographed squalid, but his interpretation was always dignified. Gli way Westcott pointed out that others have photographed squalid scenes wonderful but it has been a wonder dispersed, hit-or-miss it thousand rotogravure sections, etc. Here is a lot of all hanging together: fantastic martyred furniture, larr shades and pictures, rags, hats. Usually Mr. Evans has d missed the dweller from his dwelling, but we can dedi him. Then one sometimes sees, in wild grass, the inden tions where a rabbit has been lying, hungering, quakii Countrymen of ours like rabbits.
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