Aperture Masters of Photography: Walker Evans
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The Aperture Masters of Photography Series has become a touchstone of Aperture’s longstanding commitment to introducing the history and art of photography to a broader public. Each volume provides an ongoing comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium. Walker Evans helped define documentary photography and is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. He captured the American experience from the late 1920s to the early 1970s with graceful articulation. From 1935 to 1937, he captured rural America during the Great Depression while working for the Farm Security Administration. Much of Evans’s work from that period focused on three sharecropping families in the South, culminating in the revolutionary book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by James Agee(1941). His enduring appreciation for inanimate objects and the vernacular as subject matter is evident in his photographs of shop windows, rural churches, billboards, architecture, and displays of American culture as he saw it. Included in this publication is a new, insightful text byhistorian David Campany, presenting this definitive work to new audiences.
From staff member Zeb Andrews: "I went into this book without knowing a ton about Walker Evans. I was familiar with the name and had seen his images before but I had never sat down with a collection of his work, nor taken the time to read his history and background. This book handles both superbly. Each image is accompanied by an explanatory paragraph that adds a lot of depth and background to the paired image. I found myself staring at the photos for longer than I normally would have and with a greater understanding for what Evans was working to accomplish. I love photo books that offer such insight into a photographer's mind and the how/why of the images they make."
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