James Agee

Walker Evans

Agee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this literary classic. 64 pages of photos.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Three Tenant Families

Luc Sante

An introduction to Walker Evan's photography.

Lincoln Kirstein

The use of the visual arts to show us our own moral and economic situation has today fallen almost completely into the hands of the photographer. It is for him to fix and to reveal the whole aspect of our society: to record for use in the future our disasters and our claims to divinity. Walker 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. His photographs are the records of contemporary civilization in eastern American.~In the reproductions presented here, two large divisions have been made. The photographs are arranged to be seen in their given sequence. In the first part, which might be labeled "People by Photography," we have an aspect of America for which it would be difficult to claim too much. The physiognomy of a nation is laid on your table. In the second part are pictures which refer to the continuous fact of an indigenous American expression, whatever its source, whatever form it has taken, whether in sculpture, paint, or architecture: that native accent we find again in Kentucky mountain and cowboy ballads and in contemporary swing-music. --from the jacket of the 1938 edition~More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the image of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact. His work, presented in stark and prototypical form in American Photographs, has made its impact not only on photography but also on modern literature, film, and the traditional visual arts. First published in 1938 by The Museum of Modern Art, American Photographs has often been out of print. This edition uses duotone plates made for the 1988 edition from original prints, and makes Evans' landmark book available again. The design and typography have been recreated as precisely as possible.

American Photographs

Jerry L. Thompson

Describes the last four years of the influential photographer's life, and shows examples of his work

A First-hand Account

The Last Years of Walker Evans

"Collection of 89 photographs taken by Evans in New York City's subways between 1938 and 1941."--Amazon.

Many are Called

Jeff Rosenheim

Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936

Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Roberto Tejada

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Mercedes Iturbe

Converging looks gathers emblematic images of the 20th century, the work of three great masters of photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Manuel Álvarez Bravo. The book is published in line with the exhibition of the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, which echoes the historic exhibition dedicated to the same photographers at the Julien Levy Gallerry (New York, 1935). The texts propose a critical and historical reading of the photographs, within the scope of their vast universal resonances.

Alvarez Bravo, Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans

Mexico-New York

A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Admini (Da Capo Paperback)

Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938 

Walker Evans (Aperture Masters of Photography)

Through photographs and thoughtful text, this volume looks at the Depression and some of the families it affected.

Belinda Rathbone

An authority on photographer Walker Evans looks beyond the anonymity of his work to reveal an artist with a genius for capturing telling details of the American scene, and who profoundly influenced later photographers.

A Biography

Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans. Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat—the lens peeking through a buttonhole—he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans’s subway portraits. This beautiful new edition—published in the centenary year of the NYC subway—is an essential book for all admirers of Evans’s unparalleled photographs, Agee’s elegant prose, and the great City of New York.

"Collection of 89 photographs taken by Evans in New York City's subways between 1938 and 1941"--Amazon.

With an Introd. by James Agee

Whitney Museum of American Art

Allan Sekula

B. H. D. Buchloh

Jean-François Chevrier

Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen

Musée Cantini

"Si l'oeuvre de Walker Evans (1903-1975) est strictement photographique, la photographie ne constitue qu'un aspect, mais très important, de celle de Dan Graham. Pour ces deux artistes américains, la photographie représente une manière d'approfondir leur intérêt pour l'architecture, la vie urbaine et la culture vernaculaire. Walker Evans réalisa l'essentiel de son oeuvre dans les années 1930, réunissant un ensemble d'images qui préfigurent le Pop Art. Dan Graham s'est manifesté dans l'art conceptuel des années 1960, comme l'un des artistes qui ont repris le plus consciemment l'héritage du Pop Art. L'exposition a été conçue par l'historien d'art Jean-François Chevrier. Les photographies et les textes du livre qui l'accompagnent devraient mettre en évidence les constantes formelles et culturelles communes à l'histoire des arts visuels et à l'histoire de la photographie."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Walker Evans & Dan Graham : exposition Rotterdam, 1992, Marseille, Musée Cantini, Münster, Westfalisches Landesmuseum, 1993, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Maria Morris Hambourg

Shares selected images from the American photographer's life's work, and analyzes a career that spanned more than four decades

An album of eighty-seven of Evans' pictures of houses, factories, people, and city streets offers an unadorned look at American society between 1929 and 1937

Walker Evans

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