Walker Evans

by Maria Morris Hambourg, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Douglas Eklund

The catalog that accompanied an exhibition at the Met featuring items from the then acquired Walker Evans archives. Metropolitam Museum of Art/Princeton University Press, 2000. 318 pages; b&w photos throughout; 10 x 11.5 inches. Bibliography, index.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction, Reference, Art

318 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1971

Reviews

[Juan Peirano · Rating 2 out of 5]

Una representación un poco simple sobre parte de la obra del maestro

[Gijs Limonard · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5 stars; Exploring the classics in photography; feast your eyes on these works of art; not all masterpieces but plenty to go around to get you inspired. Many of these collections are long out of print; check out the Internet Archive (https://archive.org); many of the timeless classics are made freely available or after signing up, free to (digitally) borrow.

[Margot Note]

"Evans's strength lay in accepting and mastering the duality of the photographic document, which constantly swivels between two points, serving both as an imprint of reality that is an inevitable project of the technological process, and as an object of aesthetic contemplation, born of the photographer's artistic impulse. Evans acknowledges this ambiguity in what he himself calls his 'documentary style', which he elaborates as follows: 'The real thing that I'm talking about has purity and a certain severity, rigor, or simplicity, directness, clarity, and it is without artistic pretension in a self-conscious sense of the word.'"

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Purchased from London Portrait Gallery, summer 2010. Walker Evans is brilliant. The biography at the beginning of the book is incredibly concise and provides interesting details despite its brevity.