Many are Called (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Hardcover

Evans, Walker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300106173 ISBN 13: 9780300106176

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans. Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat - the lens peeking through a buttonhole - he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans's subway portraits. This beautiful new edition - published in the centenary year of the NYC subway - is an essential book for all admirers of Evans's unparalleled photographs, Agee's elegant prose, and the great City of New York.

About this title

Review:

'Reissued for the first time in 25 years, Evans's book has its own bashed and battered poetry.' -- The Daily Telegraph, December 4 2004

About the Author:

Luc Sante, author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts, is Visiting Professor of Writing and the History of Photography at Bard College; Jeff L. Rosenheim, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the editor of Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology and Walker Evans: Polaroids and was the main contributor to the Metropolitan's exhibition catalogue Walker Evans (2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300106173
• ISBN 13: 9780300106176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192