Main entry:

Mellow, James Robert, 1926-1997, author.

Title & Author:

Walker Evans / James R. Mellow.

Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, ©1999.

Description:

654 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 631-633) and index.
School years -- The incandescent center -- Standing aside -- Words, etc. -- The center of things -- The indigenous past -- Voyages -- Cuba libre -- Seeing red -- The politics of the vernacular -- Jane -- Love in the thirties -- A subsidized freedom -- A curious piece of work -- The cruel radiance of what is -- Untitled -- A way of seeing -- A penitent spy and an apologetic voyeur -- An apartment on the East Side -- Contemporary American subjects -- Resorters, tourists, emigrés -- Of time -- And fortune : the road taken -- "If it's there, it's there." -- Couples -- A season of endings -- 1957-1975 : a summary.

Summary:

"With unrestricted access to all of Evans's diaries, letters, work logs and contact sheets, as well as to the diaries of Lincoln Kirstein," the author provides a biography of the photographer known for Depression Era photographs of Alabama sharecroppers, as well as a "chronicle of the art of our time."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

046509077X (cloth)
9780465090778 (cloth)
1903985137
9781903985137
0465090788
9780465090785

Subject:

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.
Evans, Walker 1903-1975
Evans, Walker, (1903-1975) Biographies.
Evans, Walker.
Photographers United States Biography.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Photographers.
Foto's.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography.
Biographies.
Chronologies.
collective biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225878
Call No.: TR140.E92 M4 1999
Status: Available