Walker Evans: Signs - SIGNED by Andre Codrescu

Walker; Codrescu, Andrei; J. Paul Getty Museum; Condrescu, Andrei Evans

ISBN 10: 0500542244 / ISBN 13: 9780500542248

Published by Getty Museum; Los Angeles, 1998

About this Item

SIGNED First Edition Hardcover-black cloth- in NEAR FINE Condition in FINE Dustjacket. SIGNED by Andre Codrescu on second front endpaper. NOT personalized or inscribed. A selection of fifty photographs by Evans from the Getty's collection, accompanied by an essay and commentary by Codrescu. Includes 8 page fold-out pamphlet "Walker Evans New York" & Getty Museum bookmark. Carefully shipped.

Seller Inventory # 510258

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walker Evans: Signs - SIGNED by Andre Codrescu
• Publisher: Getty Museum; Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500542244
• ISBN 13: 9780500542248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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.