Walker Evans

A landmark biography of the American photographer, whose eye "signalled a decisive shift from the high-art aestheticism of Alfred Stieglitz in the initial phase of American modernism at the turn of the 19th-20th century to an acutely disabused photographic style that placed its trust in an unembellished, highly concentrated look at the given realities of American life. Written with unrestricted access to al of Evans's diaries, letters,work logs, and contact sheets. Notes, list of illustrations, selected bibliography, index. Illus., 154 b&w photographs. 654p. Pap.