Walker Evans - Starting From Scratch

About the author

Svetlana Alpers is professor emerita of history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar in art history at New York University. Her many books include The Art of Describing, The Vexations of Art, and Roof Life. She lives in New York City and France.

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"This is a rich and thoughtful study of Evans’s life and his “furtive, passionate looking”. . . . A wonderfully insightful discussion of Evans’s key role in the creation of a distinctively American photography and the way great photographs can change how we see the world."---PD Smith, The Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Svetlana Alpers, Alpers Svetlana
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2023
• EAN: 9780691222615
• ISBN: 978-0-691-22261-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; HISTORY / Social History, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), PHOTOGRAPHY / History, ART / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Individual photographers, Social and cultural history, Biography: arts and entertainment, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Artists' Books, Photography and photographs