Walker Evans & company

Article number 10175388

This exhibition catalogue, produced for the 2000 show at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, places the work of American photographer Walker Evans at the center of a broad visual tradition. Peter Galassi presents more than three hundred works in photography and other media by over one hundred artists, tracing how Evans’s plainspoken, descriptive style grew out of American vernacular imagery and the influence of European photographers such as Eugène Atget and August Sander. The book examines Evans’s key projects of the late 1920s and 1930s and shows how his unadorned, sharply observant view of the modern world opened new possibilities for photography as an art. It then follows Evans’s impact on later generations, from documentary photographers to contemporary artists, suggesting both direct lines of influence and more diffuse inheritances of attitude, subject matter, and approach.

Clothbound