Books related to Walker Evans
  • Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Lincoln Kirstein
    Description : More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. The original edition of American Photographs was a ca...more..
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  • Walker Evans: Signs (Getty Trust Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum) by Andrei Codrescu
    Description : Walker Evans photographed signs throughout every phase of his career. From the 1920s to the time of his death in 1975, Evans was obsessed with the signage he found in modern America--from billboards to gas station pumps to street graffiti to handmade announcements of a Saturday-night dance. This boo...more..
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  • Walker Evans: Cuba by Andrei Codrescu
    Description : In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals’s explicit goal was to expose the corruption of dictator Gerardo Machado and the torturous relationship...more..
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  • Walker Evans: A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection 1935-1938 (Da Capo Paperback) by Walker Evans
    Description : It's a well-kept secret that the Library of Congress oversees a collection of photographs numbering in excess of three million, the bulk of which are in the public domain. Among the highlights of that collection are Evans' remarkable images of the Depression era--part of a larger photographic pr...more..
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  • Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye by Gilles Mora
    Description : A concise, reduced-format edition includes the same content as the original 1994 edition and 300 duotone photographs, in a portrait that surveys every significant aspect of his life and work, from his self-education and early specialization of street-life observations to his three-year involvement w...more..
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  • Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary by John T. Hill
    Description : Walker Evans's career spread over 46 fitful and prolific years, yet in a scant two, 1935-1936, he produced the singular body of work that came to define him. During that brief time, while working for the Farm Security Administration (previously the U.S. Resettlement Administration) photographing the...more..
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  • The Story of a Photograph: Walker Evans, Ellie Mae Burroughs, and the Great Depression (Kindle Singles) by Jerry L. Thompson
    Description : Walker Evans’s iconic photograph of Ellie Mae Burroughs of Hale County, Alabama, made while he was working with James Agee, has become a memorable symbol of the Great Depression. How it came to be, and what consequences it provoked, make for a fascinating tale.---Although t...more..
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  • Walker Evans & Company by Peter Galassi
    Description : Walker Evans' radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising, movies, and car cultu...more..
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  • And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South by Dale Maharidge
    Description : In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King ...more..
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