TITLE

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade

IMPRINT

Hatje Cantz

PRICE US

$75.00 CDN $75.00

ISBN

9783775733403 TRADE

FORMAT

Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in., 272 pgs, 200 color.

CATALOG

FALL 2012 p. 66   

DISTRIBUTOR

D.A.P.

PUB DATE

9/30/2012

STATUS

Active

STOCK

In stock

HATJE CANTZ

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade

Edited and with text by James Crump.

Walker Evans (1903–1975) is, without doubt, one of the most influential American photographers ever, and many of his images have become fixed in the collective memory. But while Evans’ uncompromising depiction of poverty during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the subject of a series commissioned by the Farm Security Administration, has become a key chapter in the history of photography, his equally innovative images from later decades have generally commanded less attention. Back in print, this bilingual monograph attempts to redress the balance by examining Evans’ complete body of work, and features many rarely seen photographs, including his final works, a sequence of Polaroids shot in the early 1970s (a sequence made possible by an unlimited supply of film from its manufacturer). Evans’ re-ascendancy in the 1970s and his relationship with legendary Museum of Modern Art curator John Szarkowski are also closely examined, in this essential and definitive volume on a great photographer who certainly achieved his aim to produce pictures that were “literate, authoritative, transcendent.”

Featured image, "Herbert Solow Lighting John McDonald's Cigarette, Croton, New York" (1943), is reproduced from Walker Evans: Decade By Decade.

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