Walker Evans or Is It?

The New York Times article linked below raises interesting questions about how digital reproductions of famous photographs should be regarded.

The article was occasioned by an exhibit entitled "Walker Evans Carbon and Silver" at the UBS Gallery in New York City. Serious photographers will find the article interesting.

An article about James Agee who was Walker Evan's co-author (text) of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" is also linked below. 

PROLOGUE

From "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" To Walker Evans

Against time and the damages of the brain

Sharpen and calibrate. Not yet in full,

Yet in some arbitrated part

Order the facade of the listless summer.

Spies, moving delicately among the enemy,

The younger sons, the fools,

Set somewhat aside the dialects and the strained skins of

feigned madness,

Ambiguously signal, baffle, the eluded sentinel.

Edgar, weeping for pity, to the shelf of that sick bluff,

Bring your blind father, and describe a little;

Behold him, part wakened, fallen among field flowers

shallow

But undisclosed, withdraw.

Not yet that naked hour when armed,

Disguise flung flat, squarely we challenge the fiend.

Still, comrade, the running of beasts and the ruining

heaven

Still captive the old wild king.