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Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous (Hardcover)
Walker Evans; Edited by Thomas Zander; Text written by David Campany, Heinz Liesbrock, Jerry Thompson
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There are few parts of the world that Christian Maillard (*1944)
has not yet seen. His journeys throughout Europe, the United
States, South America, the Far East, and Africa have influenced his
photographic gaze: for him, travelling and taking photographs have
been inseparably connected since childhood. Unadorned and
straightforward, his analog black-and-white photographs present
reality as he encounters it. Whether people, landscapes, or street
scenes, his gaze is always direct, personal, engaging, and makes
reference to photographer greats such as Henri Cartier-Bresson or
Andre Kertesz.The first monograph by the French photographer
includes pictures taken all over the world between 1996 and 2016.
An introduction by the FAZ journalist and photo specialist Freddy
Langer provides a more specific classification of Maillard's
oeuvre.
Walker Evans (1903-1975) remains one of the most important and
influential photographers in the history of the medium. His career
spanned the emergence of the modern mass media in the 1920s to the
full acceptance of photography as an art form in the 1960s and 70s.
Many of Evans's individual images have become landmarks in both the
history of photography and the social history of that era. Without
Evans the development of photography would have been very
different, particularly in North America. Where the mass media
enjoyed celebrity culture, Evans photographed anonymous citizens.
Where the mass media promoted consumerism, Evans valued enduring
objects and the persistence of the past in the present.
Experimental and yet classical, Evans's photo-essays have been
overlooked until recently. Evans's series `Labor Anonymous',
published in Fortune magazine in November 1946, displayed pictures
of walking workers, taken against a featureless wall, on a Saturday
afternoon in Detroit. This book presents fifty hitherto unpublished
photos from this classic series.
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