Walker Evans

Alternate Titles

• Signs

Description

"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and Cuba.". "As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs are the work of an artist whose temperament was distinctly at odds with Beals's impassioned rhetoric. Evans's photographs of Cuba were made by a young, still maturing artist who - as Codrescu argues - was just beginning to combine his early, formalist aesthetic with the social concerns that would figure prominently in his later work."--BOOK JACKET.

Description

Walker Evans: Signs traces one particular theme - signs of all kinds - through the long career of this master photographer. The book brings together images from the era and place most closely associated with Evans, namely, the rural South of the 1930s. But also included are photographs that will be less familiar to many of Evans's admirers, such as his images of New York City street scenes and advertising or the photographs he took in Chicago and Havana. Andrei Codrescu's essay brings a fresh perspective to this great photographer's passionate investigation of the signs he discovered in the urban North, the rural South, and beyond.

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Other Editions

• Walker Evans: signsJ. Paul Getty Museum1998-01-01
• Walker EvansDoubleday1938-01-01
• Walker EvansQueen's Printer1966-01-01
• Walker Evans.Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.1971-01-01
• Walker EvansHardcoverDa Capo Press1973-06-01
• Walker EvansPaperbackHarperCollins (paper)1985-08-01