More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of
essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his
work has influenced not only modern photography but also
literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. The original
edition of "American Photographs" was a carefully prepared
letterpress production, published by The Museum of Modern Art in
1938 to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Evans that
captured scenes of America in the early 1930s. As noted on the
jacket of the first edition, Evans, "photographing in New England
or Louisiana, watching a Cuban political funeral or a Mississippi
flood, working cautiously so as to disturb nothing in the normal
atmosphere of the average place, can be considered a kind of
disembodied, burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its
hammers." This seventy-fifth anniversary edition of "American
Photographs," made with new reproductions, recreates the original
1938 edition as closely as possible to make the landmark
publication available for a new generation. "American Photographs"
has fallen out of print for long periods of time since it was first
published, and even subsequent editions--two of which altered the
design and typography of the book in small but significant
ways--are often available only at libraries and rare bookstores.
This version, like the fiftieth-anniversary edition produced by the
Museum in 1988, captures the look and feel of the very first
edition with the aid of new digital technologies.
Walker Evans (1903-1975) took up photography upon his return to New
York in 1927, following a year in Paris when his aspiration to
become a writer withered in the shadow of Fitzgerald, Hemingway and
Joyce. In 1935, Evans was commissioned by the Farm Security
Administration to photograph the effects of the Great Depression in
the Southeast. During this time he took many of the photographs
that appeared in his collaboration with James Agee, "Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men "(1941), a book which has become a defining
document of that era. Evans joined the staff of "Time "magazine in
1945 and shortly thereafter became an editor at "Fortune," where he
stayed for the next two decades. In 1964, he became a professor at
the Yale University School of Art, where he taught until his death
in 1975.
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