Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection

Walker
Evans is widely recognized as one of the greatest American photographers of the
twentieth century, and the J. Paul Getty Museum owns one of the most
comprehensive collections of his work, including more of his vintage prints
than any other museum in the world. This lavishly illustrated volume brings
together for the first time all of the Museum’s Walker Evans holdings.

Included
here are familiar images—such as Evans’s photographs of tenant farmers and
their families, made in the 1930s and later published in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—and images that are much less
familiar—such as the photographs Evans made in the 1940s of the winter quarters
of the Ringling Brothers circus, or his very late Polaroids, made in the 1970s.
In addition, many previously unpublished Evans photographs, and variant
croppings of classic images, appear here for the first time.

Author
Judith Keller has written a lively, informative text that places these photographs
in the larger context of Evans’s life and career and the culture—especially the
popular culture—of the time. In so doing, she has produced an indispensible
volume for anyone interested in the history of photography or American culture
in the twentieth century.

Also
included is the most comprehensive bibliography on Walker Evans published to
date.