Walker Evans & Company

About this book

Walker Evans radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising movies and car culture as central images of modern American identity. Walker Evans & Company focuses on Evans as a central figure in the arts of the 1920s and 30s and includes works in photography and other mediums that influenced Evans or were influenced by him or which resonate in a significant way with aspects of his imagery sensibility and style. Among the other artists whose work is featured are: Eugene Atget Mathew Brady Stuart Davis Robert Frank Lee Friedlander Edward Hopper Roy Lichtenstein Ed Ruscha August Sander Andy Warhol and Edward Weston. Published in conjunction with the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art New York.