Walker Evans: Photographer of America

By Thomas Nau

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9781596432253

Awards and Honors CCBC Choices 2008, Biography and Autobiography

Walker Evans: Photographer of America

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Determined to see what was in front of him without sentimentality or judgment, Walker Evans found beauty in the ordinary. Whether photographing buildings and workers in New York City or documenting the lives of tenant families in Alabama for the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, he let the character of his subjects come to the fore. Evans gave people a unique and lasting picture of America and forever changed the art of photography. Black-and-white photographs. Bibliography. Chronology. Index.

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AR Level 7.1 AR Points 1.0 AR Ready No Canadian Rights No Dewey 770.92 Title alpha Walker Evans: Photographer of America Category Nonfiction Middle Pages Count 64 Genre Nonfiction Summary A biography of the photographer Walker Evans, including his childhood in St. Louis, photographs and aspirations to become a writer as a young adult in New York City, friendship with important writers and photographers in New York and Paris, photographic trips to the South, romances and marriages, and later life as a professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Topics Photography. Childhood. Schooling. Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Literature. Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The New York Public Library. Paris, France. Cafes. Hanns Skolle. Hart Crane (1899-1932). Ben Shahn (1898-1969). Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996). The Brooklyn Bridge. Lettering. American domestic architecture. The South Pacific. Cuba. Gifford Cochran. New Orleans, Louisiana. Jane Smith Ninas (?-1955). The Great Depression. The Works Progress Administration. James Agee (1909-1955). Fortune magazine. Tenant farmers. Louise Burroughs. Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Subway portraits. The Guggenheim Foundation grant. Marriage. World War II. Chicago, Illinois. The changing cityscape. Divorce. Isabelle Boeschenstein. Yale University. Teaching. Polaroid SX-70 instant cameras. Health. Alcohol abuse. Death. SRC Level 7.500000 SRC Points 5.000000 Lexile 1020L Trim Size 9" x 10 1/2" Language English JLG Release Date Jun 2007 Minimum grade 5 Maximum grade 8 Reading level Middle Format Print

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