The Aperture History of Photography Series: Walker Evans.

(Walker Evans) Text by Lloyd Fonvielle.

ISBN 10: 0893810428 / ISBN 13: 9780893810429

Published by New York: Aperture, 1979

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First edition. Fine/ , no dj, as issued. The fourteenth book in their series. Superb visual Americana. 96 pages. Protected with a removable clear archival cover. Priority and international orders require extra charges which will be quoted upon ordering for prior approval. Seller Inventory # 140401

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Aperture History of Photography Series: ...

Publisher: New York: Aperture

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Walker Evans (1903-1975) ranks with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand as one of America's greatest photographers. When originally published in 1994, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye was the first book to survey every significant aspect of the artist's oeuvre. This reduced-format version, identical in content to the previous volume, includes 300 beautiful duotone photographs. Evans was largely self-educated and began photographing regularly in 1927, using a small hand-held camera. He specialized in the life of the street - carefully observed views of American architecture, the roadside, and the people who lived in the nation's villages, towns and cities. Beginning with Evans's early abstractions, continuing through his three-year involvement with the Farm Security Administration and his breakthrough exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and concluding with the artist's experimentation with colour late in his life, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye remains the most complete and authoritative view of this American photographic master.

About the Author:

Gilles Mora writes widely on photography. He is the author of Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, also published by Thames & Hudson.