Walker Evans: A Biography - Couverture rigide

Rathbone, Belinda

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500092540 ISBN 13 : 9780500092545

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Based on personal letters and interviews with more than 100 of his friends and colleagues, as well as his two former wives, this is a biography of the American photographer, Walker Evans. Evans's images of Southern sharecroppers and his pictures documenting the Depression era draw a portrait of the American soul. But what is known of the man himself? He attracted many of the brightest talents of the New York art world, counting Hart Crane, James Agee, Lincoln Kirstein, Ben Shahn and Berenice Abbott among his closest friends. But the man who charmed so many could also be cold and aloof; the artist whose work spoke of social injustice was an aristocratic aesthete and a spendthrift. The book offers a view not only of Evans but of the creative art world of which he was a part.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Walker Evan's photographs are American classics. His legendary images of southern sharecroppers in LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN and his pictures documenting the Depression era make up a haunting protrayal of the American soul. Until now, though, the man behind those well-known images has remained elusive, by his own design. In this first full biography, a leading authority on Evans penetrates the anonymity of his legendary photographs to reveal A VERY RICH AND INCLUSIVE LIFE OF FOOLISHNESS, CRUELTY, AND SPLENDOR, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. A portrait of an artist who profoundly influenced the generation of photographers who followed him, WALKER EVANS also traces the artstically fecund times that nurtured him. His career provides a NEW AND PENETRATING ILLUMINATION, ST LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, of everything from the newly established Museum of Modern Art to President Roosevelt's troubled Farm Security Adminsistratiion. WALKER EVANS is a thoroughly engrossing biography of a unique American master.

Revue de presse

"A luminous and affectionate tribute to this gifted man." Boston Globe

"Incisive, authoritative . . . brings him into focus for the first time." The Chicago Tribune

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500092540
• ISBN 13: 9780500092545
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible