Walker Evans
signs
by Walker Evans, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman
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Walker Evans: Signs traces one particular theme - signs of all kinds - through the long career of this master photographer. The book brings together images from the era and place most closely associated with Evans, namely, the rural South of the 1930s. But also included are photographs that will be less familiar to many of Evans's admirers, such as his images of New York City street scenes and advertising or the photographs he took in Chicago and Havana.
Andrei Codrescu's essay brings a fresh perspective to this great photographer's passionate investigation of the signs he discovered in the urban North, the rural South, and beyond.
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Signs and signboards, United States. Farm Security Administration, Photography of sculpture, Rural conditions, Depressions, Description and travel, Photography, Photograph collections, Pictorial works, United States, photographers, African Sculpture, Documentary photography, Catalogs, History, Social life and customs, Aesthetics, Exhibitions, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Project, J. Paul Getty Museum, Social conditions, Artistic Photography, Photographs, FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress), Individual photographers, Photographs: collections, Evans, Walker,, Individual Photographers And Their Work, Photo Essays, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Individual Photographer, American History, Art and Architecture, Photography / Individual Photographer, Photography, Artistic, 1903-1975, Gulf coast (u.s.), description and travel, Florida, description and travel, United states, pictorial works, Evans, walker, 1903-1975, Photography, exhibitions, Cuba, description and travel, Cuba, history, Photographers, biography, Ouvrages illustrés, Descriptions et voyages, Congresses, Photographs, catalogs, United states, rural conditions, Photography of children, Children, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Evans, walker , 1903-1975, Documentary photography--catalogs, Photography, artistic--catalogs, Tr820.5 .e892 2006People
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Alabama, California, Cuba, Florida, Gulf Coast (Fla.), Havana, Havana (Cuba), Los Angeles, United StatesShowing 6 featured editions. View all 28 editions?
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Walker Evans: Havana 1933
1989, Pantheon Books, Pantheon
in English
- 1st American ed.
0394574931 9780394574936
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Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938. a Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administ
June 1973, Da Capo Press
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0306700999 9780306700996
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"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 Cuba.".
"As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs are the work of an artist whose temperament was distinctly at odds with Beals's impassioned rhetoric.
Evans's photographs of Cuba were made by a young, still maturing artist who - as Codrescu argues - was just beginning to combine his early, formalist aesthetic with the social concerns that would figure prominently in his later work."--BOOK JACKET.
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