First and Last
By Walker Evans
1978
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Published three years after the artist's death, this volume maps the creative range of the great American photographer Walker Evans. The images were selected from a forty-five year archive of 20,000 negatives by Norman Ives and John T. Hill, and present his last works for the first time. 204 pages; 219 duo-toned b&w photos; 12 x 11.5 inches.
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Walker Evans
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Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent". Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art or George Eastman House. In 2000, Evans was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame
