After Walker Evans
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"After Walker Evans" is a conceptual art series by Sherrie Levine consisting of rephotographed images of Walker Evans’s iconic Depression-era photographs, challenging ideas of originality, authorship, and appropriation in art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| After Walker Evans canonical | 1 |
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: After Walker Evans Context triple: [Sherrie Levine, notableWork, After Walker Evans]
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) is a landmark collection of documentary images depicting impoverished tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression, created to accompany James Agee’s influential text of the same name.
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Robert Frank
Robert Frank was a Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker best known for his groundbreaking 1958 photobook "The Americans," which transformed documentary and street photography with its raw, unconventional style.
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W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith was a pioneering American photojournalist renowned for his powerful, humanistic photo-essays in magazines like Life.
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Russell Lee
Russell Lee was an American photographer best known for his extensive documentary work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, capturing vivid images of rural and small-town life.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: After Walker Evans Target entity description: "After Walker Evans" is a conceptual art series by Sherrie Levine consisting of rephotographed images of Walker Evans’s iconic Depression-era photographs, challenging ideas of originality, authorship, and appropriation in art.
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A.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.
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B.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) is a landmark collection of documentary images depicting impoverished tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression, created to accompany James Agee’s influential text of the same name.
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C.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank was a Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker best known for his groundbreaking 1958 photobook "The Americans," which transformed documentary and street photography with its raw, unconventional style.
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D.
W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith was a pioneering American photojournalist renowned for his powerful, humanistic photo-essays in magazines like Life.
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E.
Russell Lee
Russell Lee was an American photographer best known for his extensive documentary work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, capturing vivid images of rural and small-town life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
appropriation art work
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conceptual art series ⓘ |
| artisticIntention |
to critique authorship and ownership of images
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to explore the status of photographic reproduction ⓘ to question originality in art ⓘ |
| artMovement | Pictures Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | photographs by Walker Evans ⓘ |
| collectorInterest | highly collected in contemporary art market ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | subject of legal and ethical debates ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Sherrie Levine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
American rural poverty
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Great Depression-era scenes ⓘ |
| displayFormat | framed photographic prints ⓘ |
| documentationOf | existing Walker Evans compositions ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | museums of modern and contemporary art ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual photography
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photography ⓘ postmodern art ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
considered a landmark of appropriation art
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provoked controversy over originality ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
debates in art theory about originality
ⓘ
later appropriation photographers ⓘ |
| hasPart | rephotographed Walker Evans prints ⓘ |
| inception | 1981 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Walker Evans
NERFINISHED
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history of documentary photography ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | nonverbal ⓘ |
| locationOfFirstExhibition | Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
appropriation in art
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authorship in art ⓘ originality in art ⓘ reproduction of images ⓘ |
| medium |
gelatin silver print
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photographic print ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Sherrie Levine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
appropriation art discourse
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postmodern critique of modernism ⓘ |
| productionMethod | direct rephotographing of existing prints ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
aura of the artwork
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intellectual property in art ⓘ mechanical reproduction ⓘ postmodern appropriation ⓘ |
| relatedWork | After Walker Evans: 1–22 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | representation of 1930s America ⓘ |
| usesTechnique | rephotography ⓘ |
| visualStyle | black-and-white photography ⓘ |
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Subject: After Walker Evans Description of subject: "After Walker Evans" is a conceptual art series by Sherrie Levine consisting of rephotographed images of Walker Evans’s iconic Depression-era photographs, challenging ideas of originality, authorship, and appropriation in art.
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