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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Contents: Walker Evans in 1946 / Labor anonymous / Jerry L. Thompspn -- Selections from edited contact sheets -- 'Lyric documentary' : Walker Evans and the poetics of the social world / Heinz Liesbrock -- Finished prints -- Walker Evans : anonymous and incognito / David Campany. 163 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. First edition, first impression. Grey cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Fine in light brown "tweed" cloth with red titles to the spine, red headband and tail-band; in a fine photo-pictorial dust jacket. Walker Evans shot the photographs collected in Labor Anonymous as an assignment for Fortune magazine, which published a small selection of 20 images in its November 1946 issue, under the title "On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit." The entire series of 50 photographs had never been reproduced until this publication. "For me Walker Evans is the master. I could have picked half a dozen books by him, but Labor Anonymous gets it. It was shot in 1946 and yet it is still so modern and relevant. It s a series of 50 images shot as workers in Detroit walked to work. A simple background, the camera never moves and most don t even see the camera all studies of the facial expressions and postures of life. Amazing. -- Giles Duley; It's Nice That." Oblong quarto (10 1/4" X 9 3/4") 164 pages; list of plates.…

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 170 Seiten/pages with 50 duotone images, with a supplement of the german translation. - This book compiles the photographs, contact sheets, small-version printlets, Evans annotations to newspaper clippings, drafts for an unpublished text, telegrams and every available print Evans made, along with the Fortune spread as published. Labor Anonymous captures a long-vanished moment in American history, and a crucial project in Evans oeuvre.…