Walker Evans. Signs.

Evans, Walker and Andrei Codrescu:

ISBN 10: 0500542244 / ISBN 13: 9780500542248

Published by London, Thames and Hudson,, 1998

About this Item

69 (1) S. 50 Duoton-Abbildungen. Schwarzes Orig.-Leinen mit fotoillustriertem Schutzumschlag. 19,5 x 23,5 cm. -- Mit einem Essay von Andrei Codrescu. -- Sehr gut erhaltenes, nahezu neuwertiges Exemplar. - This book traces one particular theme, signs of all kinds, through the long career of this master photographer. With an essay by Andrei Codrescu. -- Black cloth with illustrated dust jacket, 69 (1) pages, with 50 duotone illustrations. Oblong, 19,5 x 23,5 cm. - First edition. -- Fine copy, almost new. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550.

Seller Inventory # 14882

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walker Evans. Signs.
• Publisher: London, Thames and Hudson,
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500542244
• ISBN 13: 9780500542248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photographie A-Z

About this title

Synopsis

From the late 1920s until the time of his death in 1975, renowned photographer Walker Evans returned obsessively to particular subjects. His fascination with signs resulted in some of his greatest photographs; billboards and movie posters, newspaper headlines and theatre marquees. This book brings together 50 of these photographs from the Getty Museum's large collection of Evans's work. There are images from the era and place most closely associated with Evans, the rural South of the 1930s, but there are also less familiar photographs - New York City street scenes and advertising, pictures he took in Chicago or Detroit and in Havana. Andrei Codrescu has written an essay specially for the book, that brings a fresh perspective to his great photographer's passionate investigation of the signs he discovered in the urban North, the rural South and beyond.

About the Author

Andrei Codrescu is a poet, novelist, and filmmaker, whose commentaries are often heard on National Public Radio. His latest publication is Hail, Babylon: In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium.