Published three years after the artist's death, this volume maps the creative range of the great American photographer Walker Evans. The images were selected from a forty-five year archive of 20,000 negatives by Norman Ives and John T. Hill, and present his last works for the first time. 204 pages; 219 duo-toned b&amp;w photos; 12 x 11.5 inches.

Walker Evans, First and Last

Arts & Photography

EVANS, Walker

Photography & Video

Harper

Walker Evans at work: 745 photographs together with documents selected from letters, memoranda, interviews, notes

Harper&Row

WALKER EVANS First and Last

Through the evidence of trial and error in successive images and through his own word's, this book shows how Hunter Evans worked. The 747 photographs document chronologically his choice of subject and his lifelong technical experimentation.

Walker Evans at Work

Biographies & Memoirs

HarperCollins, Publishers

Walker Evans At Work

History & Criticism

Westview Press

The photography of Walker Evans (1903-75) is introduced in a new, redesigned and expanded edition of Aperture's classic book from its Masters of Photography series. Evans helped define documentary photography and is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He captured the American experience from the late 1920s to the early 1970s with graceful articulation. From 1935 to 1937, Evans documented rural America during the Great Depression while working for the Farm Security Administration. Much of Evans' work from that period focused on three sharecropping families in southern Alabama, culminating in the revolutionary 1941 photobook Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by James Agee. His enduring appreciation for inanimate, seemingly ordinary objects and the vernacular as subject matter is evident in his photographs of shop windows, rural churches, billboards and architecture. Photography historian David Campany contributes a new introduction and image commentary to this volume, which includes some of Evans' best known and loved photographs.

Walker Evans: Photographs For The Farm Security Administration 1935-1938

Da Capo Press

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee photographed by Walker Evans. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973. This portrait of poverty-stricken Southern tenant farmers during the Great Depression has become one of the most influential books of the past century. In 1936, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for Fortune magazine explore the daily lives of white sharecroppers in the south. Black cloth binding, shelf wear, wear to dust jacket.

Literature & Fiction

AGEE, JAMES

Literary

Houghton, Mifflin Company

An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936, examining their everyday existence in poverty

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Walker Evans's haunting images of southern sharecroppers in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men were as revolutionary in their time as James Agee's text and are now deeply ingrained in the American consciousness. In the first full biography of this intriguing and enigmatic artist, a leading national authority on Evans looks beyond the calculated anonymity of his work to reveal the singular obsessions behind it. A man in love with Americana, Evans was a sensualist, a junk collector, a connoisseur, a wit, a perpetual weekend guest. His friendships with Hart Crane, Lincoln Kirstein, and James Agee drew him into the promiscuous New York literary scene in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, and his fierce independence from contemporaries such as Ansel Adams and Margaret Bourke-White brought him notoriety among photographers. Both charismatic and seductively aloof, Evans had a spy's genius for capturing the telling detail. From his rise to prominence with the founding of the Museum of Modern Art to his work

Walker Evans: A Biography

Rathbone, Belinda

Houghton/Mifflin

A new edition of the classic Depression-era photojournal of life as a southern sharecropper follows three Alabama families as they scrape a living from the land. Reissue.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

History

Americas

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