“At some level, I just couldn't name it anything else,” says Walker. He went through multiple titles before deciding this was the only title he could use. “As soon as anybody reads that name there's a wide range of associations.” “Walden- it's such a symbolically charged place,” says Walker. Also titled Walden, claiming the same name that Thoreau did was something the photographer says he wrestled with for a long time. Walker's book appears in print 200 years after Thoreau was born. Walker, whose photographic survey of Walden is now on view at the Janet Borden, Inc gallery in Dumbo, in concurrence with the release of his book, published by Kehrer Verlag, in May. “It's the kind of place where on a hot July day, the traffic has backed up, the parking lot is full, it's not unlike going to other places for a swim,” says S.B. When you remove Walden Pond from the context of Henry David Thoreau, you might be surprised to find that it’s just a beach-a glacial kettle-hole pond anchored on a stretch of wooded state reservation land in Concord, Massachusetts.
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