A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans Walker
Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people
and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known
for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the
Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of
people and the damage of the long Civil War. In Walker Evans,
renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers explores how Evans made his
distinctive photographs. Delving into a lavish selection of
Evans’s work, Alpers uncovers rich parallels between his creative
approach and those of numerous literary and cultural figures,
locating Evans within the wide context of a truly international
circle. Alpers demonstrates that Evans’s practice relied on his
camera choices and willingness to edit multiple versions of a shot,
as well as his keen eye and his distant straight-on view of visual
objects. Illustrating the vital role of Evans’s dual love of text
and images, Alpers places his writings in conversation with his
photographs. She brings his techniques into dialogue with the work
of a global cast of important artists—from Flaubert and
Baudelaire to Elizabeth Bishop and William Faulkner—underscoring
how Evans’s travels abroad in such places as France and Cuba,
along with his expansive literary and artistic tastes, informed his
quintessentially American photographic style. A magisterial account
of a great twentieth-century artist, Walker Evans urges us to look
anew at the act of seeing the world—to reconsider how Evans saw
his subjects, how he saw his photographs, and how we can see his
images as if for the first time.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| First published: |
2020 |
| Authors: |
Svetlana Alpers
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| Dimensions: |
203 x 133mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
416 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-22261-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-691-22261-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780691222615 |
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