* Before Photoshop there was K Oct 22, 2008
Curiously, the only photographer mentioned in this exhibit is the French master Eugene Atget who sold his photographs to artists (a practice common at the turn of the 19th century). Uelsmann reverses this tradition by drawing on the works of abstract and surrealist masters and yet manages to create a visual world that is all his own. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* [ART JOURNAL] Photojournalists or artists with cameras? Jun 4, 2008
A plethora of benchmark exhibitions and initiatives included the Evans retrospective of 1971 and the acquisition, from Berenice Abbot, of the Eugene Atget archive in 1968. It was Abbot who had introduced Evans to Atgets work in 1930, and the effect on him was as powerful as his earlier exposure to Strand. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
'The collection is central' Jan 28, 2008
As McCusker says in her text on the museum walls, he was instrumental in creating the reputations of many photographers now considered essential to any history: Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston, among others. The brilliance of his concepts is that they are simple, broadly relevant and help to crystallize a picture's identity without seeming to force an idea on it. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
When reality presents itself to Henry Wessel, his 'soft eyes' are available to capture -- and elevate -- the moment Feb 23, 2007
" He plunged into picture making and absorbed the work of street photographers like Eugene Atget, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand. He cites the last two as influences, and also loves the paintings of Edward Hopper, whose isolated American figures are brought to mind by Wessel's oddly arresting 1981 "Point Richmond, California. " It shows an older gent in a light suit standing at the weathered garage door of a funky little house with pipes climbing the facade, a patch of chain... (San Francisco Chronicle)
