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Evans, Walker. Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935. -1838.
Evans, Walker. Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935. -1838.
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A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection in the Library of Congress. Introduction by Jerald C. Maddox. Da Capo, 1975. 4th printing, 1983. Stiff illustrated wraps, very good with moderate wear to extremities, slight indentations from someone writing on paper put on top of front cover, and small crimp on front cover. Includes LC numbers for ordering 488 different photographs by Evans, all illustrated. Custom made 4 mil polyester jacket.
Walker Evans (1903–1975) was an American photographer best known for his defining documentation of the effects of the Great Depression, particularly through his work for the Farm Security Administration and his collaborative book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with writer James Agee. Rejecting pictorialism in favor of an unembellished, direct style, Evans captured the vernacular landscape and quotidian aspects of American life with profound clarity. He later worked as a staff photographer and writer for Fortune magazine and finished his career as a professor of graphic arts at Yale University, leaving an enduring legacy as one of the twentieth century's most influential documentary artists.
