Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye

Walker Evans ranks with Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand as a photographer of the highest calibre.

His images captured forever the harshness of the Depression, the beauty of nineteenth-century brownstone architecture, the evocative presence of everyday trash, the very essence of American life.

His three years of work in the depression-hit South produced his most famous series, the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by James Agee. At the same time, Evans assembled his influential exhibition 'American Photographs' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, recreated here in its entirety. Towards the end of his life he even experimented with colour photographs which are reproduced here for the first time in any book.

Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye has been assembled by John T. Hill, longtime friend of Evans and executor of his estate, and the distinguished French writer on photography Gilles Mora. All phases of Evans' creative career are presented, each section preceded by an explanatory essay, establishing a definitive canon of Evans' finest work. The pictures themselves are reproduced to the highest standards from the original negatives.

This is the broadest, most comprehensive summary of Walker Evans' achievement ever published. It offers an unequalled tribute to a distinguished and innovative photographer who endowed his own America with universal significance.