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First edition of
Walker Evans' American Photographs, |
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EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. New York: The Museum of Modern Art (1938). Original black cloth, original dust-jacket. $2100. "American Photographs revealed the terrible gulf between what Americans tell themselves they are and what they know they are, and at the same time opened a fissure within photography between 'artistic' and documentary practice. When Ansel Adams saw (who was born the same year as Evans, 1903) American Photographs, he wrote to Edward Weston, complaining that 'Walker Evans's book gives me a hernia. I am so goddamn mad over what people from the left tier think America is.'" Roth, The Book of 101 Books. First Edition of Evans' first major work. Issued in a run of just 5000, very few copies have survived with the original dustjacket intact. This copy with the original dustjacket and the front portion of the original publisher's band (the back of which is not present). One of the truly iconic American photography works of the 20th century. Book fine, dust-jacket near fine with minor wear to extremities. Front wrapper unevenly toned under publisher's band. |