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| Walker Evans |  | Creator: John Szarkowski
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2118017
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0870703137
EAN: 9780870703133
ASIN: 0870703137
Publication Date: June 1979
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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 Security Administration and his breakthrough exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and concluding with the artist's experimentation with colour late in his life, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye remains the most complete and authoritative view of this American photographic master.
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 Brings a period of American History to life... January 16, 2006
Evans and the other photographers of the Depression were craftmen and artists who could reach into peoples' lives and portrait their hardships on photo paper. These photo skills are still being taught at the best Photography Schools. Woody did the same with music.
 A good introduction January 8, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good overview of Evans' photography, especially his early work. Evans was really the father of modernism and straightforward photography in the USA. If you are not familiar with his contributions, this little book is a good way to begin your studies.
A great primer on a long forgotten era April 16, 2000
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
Whether you like the era of the 1930's or not, this book will give you a feel for the time and the places traveled by photographer Walker Evans. The photographs are superb technically, but it is the subjects that will remain in your memory long after you close the book. Evans's subjects are captured with dignity, and although you might be inclined to feel sorry for them, you are inevitably touched by the strength of these people. The book is a good introduction to Walker Evans and his feel for the human condition. His photographs remind me alot of Dorothea Lange's.
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