WALKER EVANS American Photographs FIRST EDITION 1938 MOMA w/dust jacket

Description: WALKER EVANS American Photographs FIRST EDITION 1938 MOMA w/dust jacket. Book is in very good condition for it’s age. Dust jacket shows it’s age. Please see photos for reference. In 1938 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City published American Photographs to accompany a retrospective exhibition of Evans’s work to that time. The book’s 87 pictures were made between 1929 and 1936 and selected by Evans. It is remarkable that more than a third of the pictures were made during the brief but astonishingly productive 18 months when Evans was employed by the FSA. American Photographs, with a critical essay by Lincoln Kirstein, remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the modern era. Summary of Walker Evans The photographs of Walker Evans told the story of American working-class life with an exacting frankness that was truly revolutionary for its time. His iconic portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs - a farmer's wife, and mother of four - whose unforgettable eyes seem to stare right through us - is one of the most firmly embedded images in American consciousness. A staffer at Fortune and Time magazines, Evans actually reached the height of his powers toward the end of The Great Depression. Drawing deeply on the American literary tradition, he went further than others in his refusal to romanticize poverty. While they might look like protagonists from American Realist novels (those by William Faulkner or John Steinbeck, for example), his men and women are real people, more firmly immortalized because it takes more time to read a book than see a photograph. Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest photographers of his time, Evans's forthright approach to portraiture and documentary redefined these genres for generations to come, and shaped how a nation remembers itself.

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