A landmark work of American photojournalism renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (New York Times)
In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their...
A landmark work of American photojournalism renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (New York Times)
More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. The original edition of American Photographs was a carefully prepared letterpress production, published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Evans that captured scenes of America in the early 1930s. As noted on the jacket of the first edition, Evans, -photographing in New England or Louisiana, watching a...
More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influence...
