Mora, Gilles

Walker Evans : the hungry eye / Gilles Mora - New York : H.N. Abrams , 1993 - 366 p. : illus. ; 31 cm

1927-32: Early abstractions. -- Brooklyn Bridge. -- New York streets. -- Victorian architecture. -- 1932-35: Tahiti. -- Havana. -- African sculpture. -- The deep south. -- Antebellum architecture. -- 1935-38: Farm Security Administration. -- American photographs. -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. -- 1938-45: The subway. -- Florida: the Mangrove coast. -- Bridgeport: the war factories. --1945-65: Labor anonymous. -- Chjicago: a camera exploration. -- California beaches. -- Views from the train. -- Beauty of the common tool. -- Aboard the Liberte. -- 1927-75: Signs and graffiti. -- Postcards. -- Trash. -- Color

Beginning with early abstractions and a project on the Brooklyn Bridge, this book covers the artist's work in New England, Tahiti, Cuba, Florida, and New Orleans, and his involvement with the Farm Security Administration which led to the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.


English

9780810932593


Evans, Walker (, 1903-1975)


Photography, artistic
Travel photography

PE1421 / .S23 1980

779.02 EVA