Evans walker essay by andrei codrescu (3 résultats)

hardcover. Etat : very good. no jacket. A book that accompanied an exhibition. Cloth hardcover with b/w illustrations throughout, 11 1/2 x 11 1/2", 95 pages of stiff b/w photos, covers slightly bowed; With an essay by Adrrei Codrescu and introduction by Judith Keller. These photos would become the images for which Evans is probably best known today, the style that fostered the American Documentary movement. book is slightly bowed, ex university library with minimal stamps etc. no pocket. sticker on last page. priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire.…

Hardcover. 95p., 10.75x11.5 inches, introduction, essay, b&w photos, very good first edition hardcover monograph bound in orange cloth boards with copper titles, unclipped dust jacket with small chip in the front lamination.

Etat : FINE. First printing. "In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for 'The Crime of Cuba',a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and its island neighbor." But, as these photographs, focusing mostly on the people of Cuba, show Evan's artistic temperament was at odds with Beals's rhetoric. This book brings together more than sixty of these images from the Getty Museum's extensive holdings of the photographer's work with an essay by Andrei Codrescu. Introduction by Judith Keller. Large square format. 96 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.…