Sixty Square Inches Maximum: 2nd Biennial North American Small Print Competition (1980)
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Walter Crump was trained as a painter and printmaker and became involved in photography when he was asked to teach a photography class in 1986. He seemed to give up printmaking for photography, but by modifying his finished photographs with bleaches and toners he seems to transfer his instinct for painting and printmaking to photography. Because he has lived in cities for most of his life, he is attracted to images found in urban environments. He prefers to photograph objects and places one tends to overlook. Most of his work is suggestively narrative. He is an observer and recorder of a world that is mostly cryptic.
