ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/25/2024 LIVE from NYPL presents Michael Stipe launching 'Even the birds gave pause'DATE 6/13/2024 ICP presents Eugene Richards on 'Remembrance Garden'DATE 6/8/2024 "Next-level otherness" in Pride Month staff pick 'Nick Cave: Forothermore'DATE 6/6/2024 Celebratory and transgressive, 'John Waters: Pope of Trash' is a Pride Month Staff PickDATE 6/3/2024 In Nan Goldin's 'The Other Side,' you are who you pretend to beDATE 6/2/2024 Green-Wood Cemetery presents Eugene Richards launching 'Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery'DATE 6/1/2024 There's no such thing as being extra in June! Pride Month Staff Picks 2024DATE 5/28/2024 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love,' on view at The BroadDATE 5/24/2024 Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with Garry Winogrand's intimate, flashing mirror of AmericaDATE 5/24/2024 Beautifully illustrated essays on Arab ModernistsDATE 5/19/2024 Of bodies and knowing, in 'Christina Quarles: Collapsed Time'DATE 5/17/2024 192 Books presents Robert Storr and Lloyd Wise launching Heni 'Focal Points' seriesDATE 5/17/2024 Lee Quiñones signing at Perrotin Store New York | BOOKS IN THE MEDIAJESSE PEARSON | DATE 1/29/2016Jesse Pearson Reviews 'Walker Evans: The Magazine Work'As a young man in the 1920s, long before he considered becoming a photographer, Walker Evans (1903-1975) wanted to be a writer. Not just a writer, but an important writer. That was his dream, and the burden of it seems to have been crushing. “I wanted so much to write that I couldn’t write a word,” he would say in 1966 to the New Yorker’s Brendan Gill. But unlike most frustrated authors, who have to settle for other jobs, from garbage man to CEO, Evans was blessed with a different—but just as ethereal—natural gift: his photographic eye. Lucky man. (And, it should be noted, he did go on to occasionally write very capable texts to accompany his journalistic photo work.)Walker Evans: The Magazine WorkSteidl $65.00 free shipping |