Walker Evans: A Biography
by Rathbone, Belinda
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine volume. a few light markings, phrases by prior owner.
- ISBN 10
- 0395590728
- ISBN 13
- 9780395590720
- Seller
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Synopsis
Walker Evan's photographs are American classics. His legendary images of southern sharecroppers in LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN and his pictures documenting the Depression era make up a haunting protrayal of the American soul. Until now, though, the man behind those well-known images has remained elusive, by his own design. In this first full biography, a leading authority on Evans penetrates the anonymity of his legendary photographs to reveal A VERY RICH AND INCLUSIVE LIFE OF FOOLISHNESS, CRUELTY, AND SPLENDOR, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. A portrait of an artist who profoundly influenced the generation of photographers who followed him, WALKER EVANS also traces the artstically fecund times that nurtured him. His career provides a NEW AND PENETRATING ILLUMINATION, ST LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, of everything from the newly established Museum of Modern Art to President Roosevelt's troubled Farm Security Adminsistratiion. WALKER EVANS is a thoroughly engrossing biography of a unique American master.
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- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.Art0850009239
- Title
- Walker Evans: A Biography
- Author
- Rathbone, Belinda
- Illustrator
- Evans, Walker (Selected Photos by).
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine volume. a few light markings, phrases by prior owner.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing. Complete number line.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395590728
- ISBN 13
- 9780395590720
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin.
- Place of Publication
- Boston MA.
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee|Evans, Walker, Photographer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art, Design, & Photography;
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