Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture

by Jerry L. Thompson, Susan A. Vogel

Book by Jerry L. Thompson, Susan Vogel

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Jerry L. Thompson is a working photographer who occasionally writes about photography. During the last three years of Walker Evans’s life he was Evans’s principal assistant and, for a time, printer of photographs. He lived with Evans off and on from late 1972 until Evans’s death in April 1975. From 1973 until 1980 he was a member of the faculty of Yale University. Thompson has also written The Last Years of Walker Evans; a book of essays, Truth and Photography; and the introduction to Walker Evans at Work. He lives in Amenia, New York.