{"product_id":"walker-evans-9780691050782","title":"Walker Evans","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tenant farmers deprivation-lined face. Antebellum homes that have seen better days. The display windows of small-town main streets. The early subway commuter. Billboards. The images made by photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) are icons of national identity that have shaped Americans views of themselves and directly influenced important currents of modern art. This major catalogue--published to accompany a retrospective exhibition originating at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveling to San Francisco and Houston--presents the full range of Evanss work  from his 1920s black-and-white street scenes of anonymous urban dwellers to the color photographs of signs and letter forms from his final years.  Soon after he returned from Paris to New York City in 1927  Evans began contributing to the development of American photography. He captured the substance of people and buildings with a spare elegance that is utterly unpretentious. His gaze is serious but often amused as well  direct yet never simple. During the 1930s  Evans traveled throughout the South to chronicle the effects of economic hardship. The time that he and writer James Agee spent with Alabama sharecropper families yielded an evocative  honest record of the Great Depression  which was published in book form as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). Evans then turned his lens back on New Yorkers  photographing subway riders with a camera hidden in his coat. He continued to influence American self-perception as staff photographer for Fortune from 1945 until he accepted a professorship at Yale in 1965.  Evans--who always chose art over what he criticized as artiness--wrote  in Photography (1969)  \"Whether he is an artist or not  the photographer is a joyous sensualist  for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings  not in thoughts. This man is in effect a voyeur by nature; he is also reporter  tinkerer  and spy.\"  Although his work has received many awards  been enshrined in the best museums  and been exhibited on several continents  Evanss total corpus is only now being fully examined. This important book revises our appreciation of Evans by presenting previously unknown material in an accessible context. Essays by Maria Morris Hambourg  Jeff L. Rosenheim  Doug Eklund  and Mia Fineman offer novel insights into the sources and legacy of Evanss work. The result is a superb exploration of what was achieved by one of our finest  mostly deeply American artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647279095861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691050783","price":140.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691050782.jpg?v=1781691516","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/walker-evans-9780691050782","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}