# Walker Evans

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- Authors: [James Mellow](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-mellow)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-10-11

## Description

The Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the American consciousness. James R. Mellow's landmark biography of Evans-the first to make use of all his diaries, letters, work logs, and contact sheets-shows that Evans was not the social propagandist that many presume, but rather a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. Walker Evans is not only one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever, it is also a fascinating cultural history of America in the 1930s and'40s.

## Editions

### Walker Evans

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6509-078-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2001-10-11
- Language: en_GB