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4) Walker Evans
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
8) Walker Evans
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
654 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blast Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this unconventional, lyrical biography, Lesy traces Evans's intimate, idiosyncratic relationships with men and women--the circle of friends who made Walker Evans who he was. 'Wonder and scrutiny produced the portraits Walker made in his prime,' Lesy writes. Evans's photographs of Agee, Berenice Abbott, Lady Caroline Blackwood, and Ben Shahn, among others, accompany Lesy's telling of Evans's life stories. 'Wonder and scrutiny, suffused with desire...
Author
Series
Works volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (New York Times)
In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published in 1941.
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...Author
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art
Language
English
Description
"More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of an essential America that we have long accepted as fact, American Photographs, first published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938, is the purest and most complete expression of his cool, unblinking vision. the eighty-seven photographs reproduced on its pages are as relevant and essential as ever, with Lincoln Kirstein's essay as their eloquent foil. American Photographs has been a key...
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection of essays illuminates a multitude of aspects of James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Among the seventeen essays are the following: David Moltke-Hansen, "Consider the Ancient Generations: Share-Cropping's Strange Compulsion"; Sara Gardner, "A Southerner in New York: James Agee and Literary Manhattan in the 1930s"; David Madden, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Is the Moby-Dick of Nonfiction"; Caroline Blinder, "Ruses...
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