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Highlights
- Walker Evans shot the photographs collected in Labor Anonymous as an assignment for Fortune magazine, which published a small selection of 20 images in its November 1946 issue, under the title "On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit.
- Author(s): Thomas Zander
- 170 Pages
- Photography, Individual Photographers
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Book Synopsis
Walker Evans shot the photographs collected in Labor Anonymous as an assignment for Fortune magazine, which published a small selection of 20 images in its November 1946 issue, under the title "On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit." Until now, however, the entire series of 50 photographs has never been reproduced. Evans' extraordinary serial studies of the facial expressions and postures of Detroit workers walking the city's streets are fascinating both as portraiture and as a surprising dimension of his photographic style. Shooting passersby against a plywood backdrop as they crossed his field of vision from distant right to close left (some noticing him, most not), with the light striking and modeling their features, Evans found that what he was creating with these images was "the physiognomy of a nation." This book compiles the photographs, contact sheets, small-version printlets, Evans' annotations to newspaper clippings, drafts for an unpublished text, telegrams and every available print Evans made, along with the Fortune spread as published. Labor Anonymous captures a long-vanished moment in American history, and a crucial project in Evans' oeuvre.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Walker Evans (1903-75) took up photography in 1928. His book collaboration with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which portrayed the lives of three white tenant families in southern Alabama during the Depression, has become one of that era's most defining documents. Evans joined the staff of Time magazine in 1945, and shortly after moved to Fortune magazine, where he stayed until 1965. That year, he became a professor of photography at the Yale University School of Art. Evans died at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1975.
Review Quotes
Apparent now are the open threads of story... and the sometimes painterly compositions, but, above all, the jumping static charge of reality. There is no longer the strange implication of taxonomy but only people, released to themselves.--Katie Ryder "The New Yorker, Photo Booth"
For me Walker Evans is the master.... I could have picked half a dozen books by him, but Labor Anonymous gets it. It was shot in 1946 and yet it is still so modern and relevant. It's a series of 50 images shot as workers in Detroit walked to work. A simple background, the camera never moves and most don't even see the camera - all studies of the facial expressions and postures of life. Amazing.--Giles Duley "It's Nice That"
Representing much more than a simple typology, this photographic series does not offer a preconceived image of humankind or class, but - as foreshadowed in its ambiguous title - encourages critical reflection on such concepts.--Jeffrey Ladd "Fotoblog"
Dimensions (Overall): 10.2 Inches (H) x 9.6 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 170
Genre: Photography
Sub-Genre: Individual Photographers
Publisher: Koenig Books
Theme: Monographs
Format: Hardcover
Author: Thomas Zander
Language: English
Street Date: March 22, 2016
TCIN: 91288095
UPC: 9781938922947
Item Number (DPCI): 247-16-9368
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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