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Which art books, prints and posters are available by and about this artist? Here is a sample of items of interest to a typical collector:
From 1973 to 1974, Lee Friedlander and Burt Wolf edited four iconic portfolios at the Double Elephant Press in New York, featuring photographs by some of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Walker Evans, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander himself. Each of the four limited edition portfolios contained fifteen photographs by each artist, representing their distinct visions that can be described in the words of Walker Evans as “oddly refreshing, unselfconsciously striking, and unpredictably adventurous.”
This publication from 2015 honored the unique collaborative project that was to become a touchstone in the history of photography.
In A Reprise, David Alekhuogie remixes Walker Evans’s photographs of African art, provoking timely questions about authorship and authenticity.
Walker Evans, American (1903–1975)
Walker Evans’s black-and-white photographs are defining documents of 20th-century America. His elegant, clear-eyed frames capture the specificities of vernacular life across the country; his subjects range from dense cityscapes and cluttered storefronts in New York City to sharecroppers inAlabama and barbers and churches in small towns and rural areas. Evans helped pioneer the documentary and street modes of photography, and his work influenced major figures including Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Bernd and Hilla Becher.
He found institutional success early in his career with shows at the Museum of Modern Art, and his books, including American Photographs, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Many Are Called, remain some of the most famous publications of photography from the 20th century. Evans’s work has sold for six figures on the secondary market and belongs in the collections of theMuseum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other institutions.
Very first edition of the iconic book by Evans.