Walker Evans: The Lost Work

Walker Evans was perhaps the greatest "documentary artist" America has ever known. In a career that lasted forty-six years (1928-1974) Evans profoundly--even radically--changed the way Americans looked at themselves, their social causes, & their country. Drawn from a largely unseen private collection--the largest private collection of Walker Evans photographs in the world--this lavishly produced volume publishes here for the first time scores of pictures that have henceforth been inaccessible to the public. Included are the familiar images of Evans's Southern work (1935-36), as well as far less familiar images of Evans's friends & fellow artists, his work in Tahiti, photographs that he made of Victorian House architecture (1930-31), & photographs done on travels to England, Cuba, Maine, Nova Scotia, Chicago & New Orleans. Importantly, Evans prefigured the work of photographers as diverse as Dorothea Lange, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, & Garry Winogrand--as well as two generations of American documentary photographers. Authors Belinda Rathbone & Clark Worswick have written lively texts delineating the overlooked byways of Evans career at a moment when a rediscovery of his life's work is taking place in both the museum world & in the world of photographic collecting. The "lost" photographs of Walker Evans, perhaps the most important figure in twentieth-century photography, are seen here for the first time.Evans, Walker is the author of 'Walker Evans: The Lost Work', published 2000 under ISBN 9781892041296 and ISBN 1892041294.