<p>I think Atget is the most compositionally interesting of the group. Especially his gardens of Versailles images. If you are ever in New Haven try to arrange to see Walker Evans prints fron Cuba. They are 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 and the ones and are very formal to my recollection. Wonderful geometry with the vent stacks on deck and a pure quality of light very much contrasting with what I think of as a "grit in most his other works. It may simply be that the cuba images were printed by someone who was more comcerned with print quality than Evans was. The photos are at Yale (Yale Art Gallery) because he was the founder of the potography program there. as an asside he often cropped his photos by simply cutting the negatives with scissors.<br>
For truely great formalist immages look at the work of Jan Groover. Look to the edges of objects, look for ambiguity, look for compositional lines and volumes that are shared by different objects.<br>
Look at Westons peppers. Objects that transcend their objective meaning and become essential sensuous form and texture and volume just for the beauty of their form independent from but not divorced from their pepperness.</p>
