Walker Evans / introduction and commentary by David Campany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.

Contributor:

Campany, David, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Aperture masters of photography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 photographer.

Evans, Walker.

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

95 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Aperture Foundation Inc., [2015]

Summary:

The photography of Walker Evans (1903-75) is introduced in a new, redesigned and expanded edition of Aperture's classic book from its Masters of Photography series. Evans helped define documentary photography and is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He captured the American experience from the late 1920s to the early 1970s with graceful articulation. 0From 1935 to 1937, Evans documented rural America during the Great Depression while working for the Farm Security Administration. Much of Evans' work from that period focused on three sharecropping families in southern Alabama, culminating in the revolutionary 1941 photobook Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by James Agee. His enduring appreciation for inanimate, seemingly ordinary objects and the vernacular as subject matter is evident in his photographs of shop windows, rural churches, billboards and architecture. Photography historian David Campany contributes a new introduction and image commentary to this volume, which includes some of Evans' best known and loved photographs.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781597113434

1597113433

OCLC:

929592701