Walker Evans: A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection 1935-1938 (Da Capo Paperback)
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Walker Evans: A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection 1935-1938 (Da Capo Paperback) Details
Amazon.com Review It's a well-kept secret that the Library of Congress oversees a collection of photographs numbering in excess of three million, the bulk of which are in the public domain. Among the highlights of that collection are Evans' remarkable images of the Depression era--part of a larger photographic project that employed Dorothea Lange and others--documenting the effects of soil erosion in Mississippi, the plight of Arkansas flood victims and the day-to-day lives of Alabama sharecroppers. The mood of the period is evoked strongly by nearly 500 photographs, many reproduced here for the first time; others are memorable for their inclusion in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Read more
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AS BOOK IT HAS GOOD QUALITY AND THE PRINT OF THE PICS IS FINE.THE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS IN IT ARE INTERESTING AND VERY HELPFUL.AS WALKER EVANS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY,I THINK THAT THIS BOOK DEPICTS ON OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF HIS EARLY WORK.I THINK IS A MAST FOR ANYONE WHO WONTS A GOOD BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN HIS LIBRARY.