Walker Evans books among distinctive photo-documentary books available this summer.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: August 16, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Let us now praise Walker Evans.

Twenty-five years after his death, Evans (1903-1975), the great documentary photographer, has become the object of well-deserved and long-overdue tribute, including a recent retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art on Evans and the rise of documentary photography, and the reissuance of Evans' best-known published work.

The Evans books are part of an abundance of distinctive photo-documentary books available this summer: magnificently reproduced volumes saturated with ...

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