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Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous
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This collection appeals to enthusiasts of photographic history, social documentary, and 20th-century American culture. It is an essential acquisition for those interested in the development of photography as an art form and the portrayal of everyday life in postwar society.
Fifty photographs in Walker Evans’s ‘Labor Anonymous’ series, published here for the very first time.
Fifty photographs in Walker Evans's 'Labor Anonymous' series, published here for the very first time.
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) remains one of the most important and influential photographers in the history of the medium. His career spanned the emergence of the modern mass media in the 1920s to the full acceptance of photography as an art form in the 1960s and 70s. Many of Evans's individual images have become landmarks in both the history of photography and the social history of that era.
Without Evans, the development of photography would have been very different, particularly in North America. Where the mass media enjoyed celebrity culture, Evans photographed anonymous citizens. Where the mass media promoted consumerism, Evans valued enduring objects and the persistence of the past in the present.
Experimental and yet classical, Evans's photo-essays have been overlooked until recently. Evans's series Labor Anonymous, published in Fortune magazine in November 1946, displayed pictures of walking workers, taken against a featureless wall, on a Saturday afternoon in Detroit.
This book presents fifty hitherto unpublished photos from this classic series.
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ISBN: 9783863358716
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 29 February 2016
Country: Germany
Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Illustration: Illustrated in colour and duotone throughout
Contributors:
- Edited by Thomas Zander
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 240.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 970g
Pages: 164
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