Elie Nadelman

When writer and New York City Ballet founder Lincoln Kirstein died in 1995, he was hailed as a Renaissance man. This splendid publication compiled and composed by Kirstein on the works of the acclaimed American sculptor Elie Nadelman stands as a monument to both extraordinarily talented men. This 1973 first edition, featuring extensive reproductions from all phases of the artist's career, is the most complete catalogue of Nadelman's work and writing.

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Until now, Walker Evans legendary 1971 interview with Eakins Press founder Leslie Katz has been unavailable, except in anthologies. In Incognito, a new, limited-edition tribute to the great American photographer, Eakins Press Foundation has finally reprinted this candid interview, in which Evans speaks freely about his photography and philosophy with his longtime friend Katz. The eight photographs included were selected by Evans himself to illustrate pivotal moments in his career. This buckram-bound edition, with luscious tritone prints and letterpress-printed text, is truly a masterpiece of the printer s and book binder s art.

Incognito: Limited Edition

In 1936, when Walker Evans had his first major show at the Museum of Modern Art, he conceived an accompanying series of postcards to sell at the museum during the exhibition. Using Kodak gelatin silver postcard paper, Evans began to make contact print details of a number of his 8 x 10-inch negatives, but the project was never completed. Now, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and their Walker Evans retrospective, Eakins Press makes a selection of these small masterpieces available. 
The eight images from Walker Evans: A Gallery of Postcards are produced as classic tri-tones and sold in a custom-designed aluminum box that opens to a self-standing display. A beautiful object to keep or a memorable gift for photography buffs. Featured essay by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dimension: 5 ¾ x 4 inches, 8 tri-tone postcards

A Gallery of Postcards (EAKINS PRESS FO)

EVANS, Walker

The circus is in town! This exciting new volume showcases the thrilling circus photography of the American photographer Frederick W. Glasier, who photographed the circus during its 1890-1925 heyday. Now considered as masterful a chronicler of time and place as his contemporaries Atget and Sander, Glasier made photos which bring the three-ring pageant of the circus to life with an irresistible narrative rhythm. With 73 gloriously reproduced images from the 1,700 glass plate negatives from the collections of the John &amp; Mable Ringling Museum of Art at Florida State University, informative anecdotal captions by the circus historian (and co-editor of this volume) Deborah Walk, and a fascinating essay by Luc Sante.

CIRCUS: The Photographs of Frederik W. Glasier

Photography & Video

The Eakins Press Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Magicians &amp; Charlatans by Jed Perl, the art critic for The New Republic. In this collection of 26 essays Perl writes with great urgency about the art scene of the past decade. The poet John Ashbery has said that For years Jed Perl has been covering the art world with tremendous empathy and unsparing accuracy. His ability to recognize the traditional forms of art behind their continual transmutation has made his an almost solitary, essential voice.The essays range from highly controversial critiques of the painter Gerhard Richter, of the art dealer Leo Castelli and of the Museum of Modern Art, to appreciations of the art of Bernini and Chardin and of the writings of Edmund Wilson and Meyer Schapiro.

Magicians & Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture

History & Criticism

This elegantly designed and beautifully produced volume presents portraits of 50 extraordinary individuals who contributed to making the Harlem Renaissance one of the great cultural movements in American history. Some of the subjects are familiar―icons of music, dance, theater, literature, art, academia and sports―while others are considerably less well known, but equally important to the spirit at the heart of the movement. The photographs show the sitters not only as public personalities but also as private citizens. They ennoble without flattery, and benefit from the insight that their friendship with Van Vechten engendered. Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) was a well-known and controversial figure during his lifetime. He was a celebrated dance critic, novelist, photographer and friend of Harlem. In his introduction to the book, Darryl Pinckney writes of Van Vechten, "He recreated himself as an artist and he became a portrait photographer of historical importance…. [The Harlem Renaissance] was a cultural movement that through his photography Van Vechten both witnessed and abetted. In remaining true to the cause, he discovered his best self." 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes is both a cultural and photographic treasure, providing new audiences with compelling studies of these inimitable figures who so essentially shaped what we know as American culture. The book is intended to contribute to a deep and lasting appreciation of the achievements of African-Americans of this era by informing succeeding generations about their works and their personalities.

Carl Van Vechten: 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes

On May 17, 1957, through the generosity of Bayard Rustin, Lee Friedlander was given full access to photograph the participants of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. This extraordinary event, organized by Mr. Rustin, as well as A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., brought together many of the great thinkers and leaders of the period, and was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Friedlander's photographs depict the famous individuals at the event―Mahalia Jackson, Ruby Dee and Harry Belafonte, among many other luminaries of the African-American community―but they also pay particular attention to the 25,000 men, women and children who gathered to give voice and energy to the ideas embattled by the movement. The 58 previously unpublished photographs gathered here are among Friedlander's earliest work. Also included in this publication is the typescript of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Give Us the Ballot" speech and additional ephemera from the march produced in facsimile.

Lee Friedlander: Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

Originally published to great acclaim in 1976, The American Monument has become one of the most sought-after photography publications of the 20th century. Long out of print, this second edition is once again available again for all to enjoy and own. Published in the same oversized format as the first edition with exquisite duotone reproductions of the original 213 photographs the album of post-bound single sheets can easily be disassembled for display. Considered by many, including Friedlander himself, to be one of his most important books, The American Monument has influenced generations of photographers, curators and art historians. The second edition includes the original essay by Eakins Press founder Leslie George Katz along with a new essay by eminent past NYC s Museum of Modern Art s photography curator and Friedlander scholar Peter Galassi, which illuminates the history and continued significance of this iconic artist and this early publication. The deeply influential American curator of photography at MoMA during the 1960s-70s, John Szarkowski (1927 2007), stated: I am still astonished and heartened by the deep affection of those pictures, by the photographer s tolerant equanimity in the face of the facts, by the generosity of spirit, the freedom from pomposity and rhetoric. One might call this work an act of high artistic patriotism, an achievement that might help us reclaim that word from ideologues and expediters. Lee Friedlander is the recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships as well as a MacArthur Fellowship. He has published more than 50 monographs since 1969, and exhibited extensively around the world for the past five decades, including a major retrospective at the MoMA, NY, in 2005.

Lee Friedlander: The American Monument

For sixty years, Mary Frank has been making deeply personal work that has found broad appeal through countless exhibitions and publications. Her work has taken a variety of forms during this timefrom sculpture and oil paintings to multi-media installationsbut in the last ten years her focus has been increasingly on the use of photography in the service of ideas she has evolved throughout her artistic life. These photographs are not like any others and represent an amalgamation of themes and subjects that have appeared in all other media in which Mary has worked during her life. The Eakins Press Foundation is honored to be publishing the first collection of these important photographs in an exquisitely produced volume with texts by the renowned poet and critic, John Yau, and the environmental activist and author, Terry Tempest Williams.

Pilgrimage: Photographs by Mary Frank

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In 1971, Art in America published an interview with Walker Evans conducted by Leslie George Katz, writer and publisher of the Eakins Press. The interview is charming and illuminating in its clarity and candor. Nearing the end of his life, Evans speaks freely about his influences and how he got started as a photographer ("I was damn well going to be an artist and I wasn't going to be a businessman," he remembers), and reflects back on his work and his thinking. The interview has become legendary, consulted by curators, scholars and students for half a century and considered a definitive source for insights into the process, philosophy and personality of one of America's greatest photographers. In 1995, the Eakins Press Foundation republished Evans' interview in a deluxe clothbound edition titled Walker Evans Incognito. More than 20 years later, this new edition brings the Evans interview back into print in an elegant and affordable volume for a new generation. Walker Evans scholar Anne Bertrand introduces the interview and its publication history, and contributes notes throughout the text that provide important contextual information. Walker Evans: The Interview offers an opportunity to rediscover the man behind the famous images, in his own words. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Walker Evans (1903-75) took up photography in 1928. His book collaboration with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which portrayed the lives of three white tenant families in southern Alabama during the Depression, has become one of that era's most defining documents. Evans joined the staff of Time magazine in 1945, and shortly after moved to Fortune magazine, where he stayed until 1965. That year, he became a professor of photography at the Yale University School of Art. Evans died at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1975. Leslie George Katz (1918-97) was the founder and publisher of the Eakins Press Foundation. Until his death in 1997, he wrote extensively about American art and culture, and through his sustained efforts to celebrate his heroes--Thomas Eakins, Walt Whitman, and Walker Evans--found a way to define a new sort of democratic, patriotic intellectualism.

Walker Evans: The Interview: With Leslie George Katz

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