WALKER EVANS

Mellow, James R.

ISBN 10: 046509077X / ISBN 13: 9780465090778

Edité par Basic Books, New York, 1999

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Introduction by Hilton Kramer. Sm 4to. Quarter black cloth and dark grey cloth, with silver spine lettering. Dark gray end papers. Frontis b/w photographic image. 654 pages, with Notes, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with b/w photographic images. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket, with price intact. A crisp, as new copy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: WALKER EVANS
• Éditeur: Basic Books, New York
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 046509077X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780465090778
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First printing.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Walker Evans (1903–1975) is best known as one of the leading documentary photographers of the Depression Era, and for his photographs of Alabama sharecroppers in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. His FSA photographs have become icons in the American consciousness, and are perhaps the most influential body of photographic work in this century.But Evans was not the propagandist for social causes he was presumed to be; he was, instead, a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. His instinctive aversion to “artiness” contrasted him sharply from his senior Alfred Stieglitz, and his immediate contemporary, Ansel Adams. Evans' eye took him toward the dusty particulars, the backroads of American life, its rundown mill towns, roadside stands, torn movie posters and advertisements for departed minstrel shows. He developed a peculiarly American vernacular, his particular trademark that makes an Evans photograph almost instantly recognizable.With unrestricted access to all of Evans' diaries, letters, work logs and contact sheets, James R. Mellow has produced one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever. Also, it is a deeply informed cultural history of the 1930s and '40s and a lively account of friendships and influences with the likes of Lincoln Kirstein and James Agee.