BEYER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Robert Walker, Photography
Generously supported by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beyer
Robert Walker made his reputation as a color street photographer, working mainly in New York, but also in Paris, Venice, Warsaw and Montreal. After working for decades in dense urban environments he decided he needed a new challenge and turned his focus to nature and photographed the Jardin botanique de Montréal over a period of five years.
Noted author, professor, curator and museum director William A. Ewing will discuss with Robert Walker how Walker’s artistic practice evolved from photographing dense cityscapes, influenced by Pop Art painters such as Rauschenberg and Rosenquist, to an engagement with nature, photographing flowers, influenced by abstract ”Color-field” painters.
Walker’s work has been published by Oxford University Press in a book titled New York Inside Out with an introduction by William S. Burroughs and Color is Power, published by Thames & Hudson. His photographs are included in many public and private collections.