Walker Evans: America - Hardcover

Evans, Walker; Brix, Michael; Mayer, Birgit

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ISBN 10: 0847813444 ISBN 13: 9780847813445

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1991

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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The publication of this catalog, which accompanied a recent exhibition at the Stadtische Galerie in Munich, is timed to coincide with an unrelated Evans retrospective exhibition that will be presented at the National Gallery in Washington late in 1991. A somewhat redundant effort, with a selection of images that seems repetitious at times, the book covers no new ground, but its appearance indicates Evans's continuing influence on and importance in 20th-century photography. Well-reproduced photographs (arranged chronologically) are selected from Evans's 1920s photography of street life in New York City; 1930s photos of Cuba and the southern United States; Farm Security Administration photos (1935-38); sharecroppers' portraits from his 1936 collaboration with James Agee ( Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ); New York subway rider portraits (1939-41) from Many Are Called ; and Chicago street portraits (1947) made while he was a Fortune staff photographer. The absence of an up-to-date bibliography of writings about (and by) Evans makes this book less useful than it might have been. For the informed reader.
- Kathleen Collins, Great Barrington, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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