American photographs / Walker Evans ; with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein.
1975
E169 .E85 1975 (Mapit)
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American photographs / Walker Evans ; with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein.
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0891720014
9780891720010
9780891720010
Publication Details
New York : East River Press, 1975, ©1938.
Language
English
Description
192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
E169 .E85 1975
Dewey Decimal Classification
779/.9/973916
Summary
'American Photographs' is regarded as one of the most important photobooks ever published. It was originally an exhibition catalogue of his one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1938, the first solo show MoMA had given to a photographer. It documents the lives of the poor and dispossessed in 1930s, depression era America.
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Reprint of the ed. published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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