By Ron Hogan
Two new biographies examine the lives of Robert Mapplethorpe and Walker Evans, two of the most famous American photographers of the twentieth century. During the Depression, Evans used his camera to depict the effects of economic hardship on Appalachian families with a steady, unflinching eye. Nearly fifty years later, Mapplethorpe would find the aesthetic beauty of the underground world of sexual sadomasochism with a gaze that was equally precise.
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