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Walker Evans - American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, 1938, New York

 

Hardcover, cloth bound with dust jacket. Edition of 5000 copies.

„More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums.

The original edition of American Photographs was a carefully prepared letterpress production, published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Evans that captured scenes of America in the early 1930s. As noted on the jacket of the first edition, Evans, “photographing in New England or Louisiana, watching a Cuban political funeral or a Mississippi flood, working cautiously so as to disturb nothing in the normal atmosphere of the average place, can be considered a kind of disembodied, burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers.” (SFMOMA)

Pages: 196
Place: New York
Year: 1938
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Size: 20 x 23 cm (approx.)


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Hardcover, cloth bound with dust jacket. Edition of 5000 copies.

„More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums.

The original edition of American Photographs was a carefully prepared letterpress production, published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Evans that captured scenes of America in the early 1930s. As noted on the jacket of the first edition, Evans, “photographing in New England or Louisiana, watching a Cuban political funeral or a Mississippi flood, working cautiously so as to disturb nothing in the normal atmosphere of the average place, can be considered a kind of disembodied, burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers.” (SFMOMA)

Pages: 196
Place: New York
Year: 1938
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Size: 20 x 23 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
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