Review of Signs - Walker Evans J Paul Getty Publications
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I saw this book on Amazon and had to have it, as I am a Walker Evans fan. If you collect images of signs as I do, I suspect this book will appeal to you also.
"Signs - Walker Evans" is a collection of many of his B&W images of signs collected in the rural South, as well as in the subway system of New York city. Evans shot signs, common folks, architecture, theatre marquees, movie posters, and store fronts. Several of his images from Cuba are included in the book also.
He was born into a well to do family in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1903. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover and studied one year at Williams College. He then studied in Paris for a year. He returned to the US and took up photography in 1930s. He went on to become a successful photographer for the Farm Service Administration and publishers in New York city. He culminated his career by joining the faculty at the Yale School of Art and Architecture.
Evans was fascinated with signs, collecting them to display along with his photographs of signs in his gallery exhibitions. He shot the common man, including share croppers in Hale County Alabama in the 1930s.
The book is 8 x 9 inches and 70 pages long with many full page images of lovely B&W. There are no colored images in the book.
It is published by the J Paul Getty Museum. There is a running commentary by Andrei Codrescu about modernism and surrealism. It can be found on Amazon.com
Walker Evans images need no commentary, and can stand on their own. An excellent book for those who are interested in good Black and White photography.
"Signs - Walker Evans" is a collection of many of his B&W images of signs collected in the rural South, as well as in the subway system of New York city. Evans shot signs, common folks, architecture, theatre marquees, movie posters, and store fronts. Several of his images from Cuba are included in the book also.
He was born into a well to do family in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1903. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover and studied one year at Williams College. He then studied in Paris for a year. He returned to the US and took up photography in 1930s. He went on to become a successful photographer for the Farm Service Administration and publishers in New York city. He culminated his career by joining the faculty at the Yale School of Art and Architecture.
Evans was fascinated with signs, collecting them to display along with his photographs of signs in his gallery exhibitions. He shot the common man, including share croppers in Hale County Alabama in the 1930s.
The book is 8 x 9 inches and 70 pages long with many full page images of lovely B&W. There are no colored images in the book.
It is published by the J Paul Getty Museum. There is a running commentary by Andrei Codrescu about modernism and surrealism. It can be found on Amazon.com
Walker Evans images need no commentary, and can stand on their own. An excellent book for those who are interested in good Black and White photography.
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thanks for mentioning it-
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Pathfinder -
I got this from my wife for Christmas - great book
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There is another Walker Evans book from Getty Trust Publications entitiled "Walker Evans - Florida"
This is series of shots Evans was hired to shoot of Florida in 1941.
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Along with Walker Evans, check out Dorothea Lange of the same era.
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