- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Errata Editions (February 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1935004026
- ISBN-13: 978-1935004028
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 18.3 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #16 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( D-F ) > Evans, Walker
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America's most famous photo book,
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This review is from: Walker Evans: American Photographs (Hardcover)
What can I saw about this remarkable photo book that hasn't been said before? Well, regarding the photos nothing really but, as I found out, the history of this title is quite fascinating. Over the years there have been four editions. Originally published by MoMA in 1938 (the five thousand copies were letterpress printed) to coincide with an exhibition of a hundred of Evans photos. Oddly forty-seven of these don't appear in the book and thirty-three in the book didn't make it to the exhibition. Even photos that appeared in both had different cropping or were from different negatives of the same event.The second edition, in 1962, was again published by MoMA in an edition of four thousand copies, letterpress printed from the 1938 plates. The third edition, with the photos now out of copyright, was published by the East River Press. This edition is best avoided because it was printed from pages in the 1938 book, by offset litho, rather than from the original prints. This, the fourth edition, was again published by MoMA to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary in 1988. The eighty-seven photos here are printed as duotones from prints made from the original negatives, with one exception which was made from the printed photo in the 1938 book because the negative had been destroyed. The original 1938 exhibition photos have long been forgotten, (though if you are interested they are shown in `Walker Evans: The hungry eye' (ISBN 978-0810932593) so it is this book that carries on his legacy. Unfortunately prices vary enormously for the different editions but you can see what pages in the original book looked like by checking out the `Walker Evans: American Photographs / Books on Books' (ISBN 978-1935004028).
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3.3 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews) 31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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Great idea, horrible execution,
By M. E. Campbell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Walker Evans: American Photographs (Hardcover)
I was really looking forward to the arrival of this book since I had heard that it was being reissued. I was crushed, however, when I opened it to find that it was literally a photocopy of an original book. Many of the pages of this book contain four pages of the original, two of which are blank pages. So now you have these classic, large-format (8x10 I assume) originals reproduced at around 3x2 in. What a waste of time. I bought the Atget book from the same company and it's the same story. Both of these are going back promptly.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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Why Bother,
By M. Limbert - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Walker Evans: American Photographs (Hardcover)
Sure, it's a noble idea to make "...Rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts." But when it's at the expense of the content - the PHOTOGRAPHS - I have to ask WHY BOTHER. This is a compromised reprinting of an original published edition of "American Photographs" which here is re-photographed from vintage book spreads and is painfully reproduced, sometimes half-size, sometimes seemingly 1/4 size. Now honestly, what value can be obtained from a photograph of a photograph that was originally printed in a book from 1938 now reprinted at 3 inches by 2 inches? Why not just reset the entire book in the original order with fresh image prints on full-sized plates and original readable typed commentary in an effective size bigger than 2pt? What is more important, the color and condition of the 1938 paper or the photographs? Foolish. This book is being returned. I enjoyed it more when I didn't own it.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Major Disappointment,
By JB - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Walker Evans: American Photographs (Hardcover)
This book (and the one on Atget which I also bought) was a major disappointment. While this may be a re-presentation of the work as originally published, the photographs are reproduced in almost miniature scale. Little value for the price, in my view.
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