Evans, Walker, 1903-1975.

Many are called / Walker Evans ; introduction by James Agee ; foreword by Luc Sante ; afterword by Jeff L. Rosenheim.

New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.

207 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm

"Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well known but equally important publication entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from digital scans made from the original 35mm negatives. Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In early 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat - the lens peeking through the opening between buttons - he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By February 1941, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished, however, until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans's subway portraits. This new edition of Many Are Called--published in the centenary year of the New York City subway--features a fascinating foreword by Luc Sante in which he discusses the unique character of these portrait images. He examines the progressive nature of the photographs taken in the 'neutral zone' of the subway--the ideal studio for Evans, who did not like to engage with his subjects--in the context of contemporary street photography. Sante also explores the confrontational and intrusively voyeuristic nature of the images. Jeff Rosenheim contributes an afterword explaining the complicated history of the subway series photographs, from the various grants that Evans secured for the project to the publication of the book in September 1966. For admirers of Walker Evans's unparalleled photographs, James Agee's elegant prose, and the great city of New York, this new edition of Many Are Called is an essential book to own and to cherish for years to come." -- Jacket

0300106173 (alk. paper)
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Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 Porträtphotographie.
Evans, Walker 1903-1975
Evans, Walker.
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
Portrait photography New York (State) New York.
Subways New York (State) New York Pictorial works.
Portraits (Photography) New York (États) New York.
Métros new York (États) New York Ouvrages illustrés.
Portraits (Photographie) New York (État) New York.
Métros New York (État) New York Ouvrages illustrés.
Portrait photography.
Subways.
Porträtfotografie
Untergrundbahn
New York (State) New York.
New York, NY

Bildband.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Agee, James, 1909-1955
Rosenheim, Jeff
Sante, Luc
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Location: Library main 233211
Call No.: TR140.E92 E95 2004
Status: Available