Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087070835X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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The inscrutable photographs in suggestive, provocative order were the antithesis of the slick Life photo-stories Evans detested. (Vince Alletti The New Yorker)Published on the occasion of a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, American Photographs fused Evans's avid learning from European books and journals about complex sequencing with his acute attention to bodies, faces, and places eclipsed by modern progress. No celebrities, no soaring skyscrapers -- in fact, nothing very new at all. (John Dorfman Art & Antiques)"Walker Evans helped Americans discover themselvesa book populated by Depression-haunted souls." (The New York Ti
"Modernist Americana Classic" according to A photographer. Although I came to understand and appreciate his work somewhat late in my own personal photographic journey, Walker Evans today stands at the top of my list of my photography heros. Where early heros such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston espoused the same philosophy of visual clarity, Evans refined this view and elevated the commonplace to the extraordinary. He did not romanticize his subjects, something often seen in the photos of Adams and Weston. Instead, he worked in "documentary style" with honesty and simplicity. His influence has permeated photography a. "Nearly perfect repro-edition of original, and a joy" according to W. White. I first came to know Walker Evans' American Photographs from a copy of the original edition owned by an uncle who bought it in the MoMA gift shop during that show. That was a beautiful book, with a wide sweep of subject and treatment, and this 75th anniversary edition is amazingly close to the original, except without the wear and fading. Reviewers gush about beautiful photo reproduction all the time, so let me just say that it is outstanding, without any fault. And the rest: this is a very nice book, and it will last through years of perusing by many hands. T. Robert D. Rosinsky said Excellent Reissue of the Original. I have nothing but praise for this book. The photos are reproduced well, the paper is first-rate, and the book is a pleasure to hold. It is faithful to the original published in the 19Excellent Reissue of the Original I have nothing but praise for this book. The photos are reproduced well, the paper is first-rate, and the book is a pleasure to hold. It is faithful to the original published in the 1930s. It is a treat to be able to spend time and examine Evan's pictures. They are laden with visual detail and historical meaning. Walker Evans certainly deserves to be considered among the best photographers of the last century as well as a gifted anthropologist. His photos render a piercing view of American life during the Great Depression. His technical mastery of black and wh. 0s. It is a treat to be able to spend time and examine Evan's pictures. They are laden with visual detail and historical meaning. Walker Evans certainly deserves to be considered among the best photographers of the last century as well as a gifted anthropologist. His photos render a piercing view of American life during the Great Depression. His technical mastery of black and wh
As noted on the jacket of the first edition, Evans, “photographing in New England or Louisiana, watching a Cuban political funeral or a Mississippi flood, working cautiously so as to disturb nothing in the normal atmosphere of the average place, can be considered a kind of disembodied, burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers.” This seventy-fifth anniversary edition of American Photographs, made with new reproductions, recreates the original 1938 edition as closely as possible to make the landmark publication available for a new generation. During this time he took many of the photographs that appeared in his collaboration with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a book which has become a defining document of that era. In 1964, he became a professor at the Yale University School of Art, where he taught until his death in 1975.. Evans joined the staff of Time magazine in 1945 and shortly thereafter became an editor at Fortune, where he stayed for the next two decades. In 1935, Evans was commissioned by the Farm Security Administration to photograph the effects of the Great Depression in the Southeast. The original edition of American Photographs