Aperture

Aperture. Walker Evans Pa (Aperture History of Photography Series; 12)
by Hist, P; Evans, Walker

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Publisher:Aperture, 1980
Edition:Hardcover
Language:English

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About the book:
Walker Evans (1903-1975) ranks with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand as one of America’s greatest photographers. When originally published in 1994, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye was the first book to survey every significant aspect of the artist’s oeuvre. This reduced-format version, identical in content to the previous volume, includes 300 beautiful duotone photographs. Evans was largely self-educated and began photographing regularly in 1927, using a small hand-held camera. He specialized in the life of the street – carefully observed views of American architecture, the roadside, and the people who lived in the nation’s villages, towns and cities. Beginning with Evans’s early abstractions, continuing through his three-year involvement with the Farm