Walker Evans: American Photographs - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1935004247 ISBN 13 : 9781935004240

Editeur : Errata Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Walker Evans - American Photographs. Books on Books Walker Evans' "American Photographs" is widely deemed the most important photobook ever published. Originally conceived to be a catalogue to accompany his one-man show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 (the first solo show MoMA had given to a photographer), it quickly became a document so definitive of its era that curator John Szarkowski wrote that "it was difficult to know now whether Walker Evans recorded the America of his youth, or invented it." The book opens with images that cite photography, immediately establishing a tension between medium and message, although it is certainly for the message that Evans has become famous: "American Photographs" po...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Errata Editions
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935004247
• ISBN 13: 9781935004240
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 152