"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men", Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Books

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

(Mariner Books, 2001)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

(Violette Editions, 2002)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969)

James Agee and Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

(Penguin Books, 2006)

American Photographers of the Depression: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and the FSA Photographers (Photofile)

(Thames & Hudson, 1991)

Walker Evans

(Centre Pompidou, 2017)

Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange & les photographes de la grande dépression

(Place Victoires, 2017)

Walker Evans: Photographs For The Farm Security Administration 1935-1938

(Da Capo Press, 1974)

Walker Evans America: Pictures from the Great Depression

(Schirmer/Mosel, 1999)

Walker Evans: Aperture Masters of Photography

(Aperture, 2016)

Walker Evans At Work

(Westview Press, 1994)

Walker Evans (Photofile)

(Thames & Hudson, 2008)

Walker Evans & Company

(MOMA, 2002)

Walker Evans

(Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2003)

Walker Evans

(Actes Sud, 2014)

Walker Evans

(Schirmer/Mosel, 1970)

Walker Evans

(MOMA, 1979)

Walker Evans

(Phaidon, 2001)

Walker Evans

(Princeton University Press, 2004)

Walker Evans

(Prestel, 2017)

Walker Evans

(MOMA, 1971)

Walker Evans: American Photographs: Books on Books No. 2

(Errata Editions, 2011)

More by Walker Evans

Parker Car, Small Town Main Street, 1932

American Photographs

Walker Evans (1903-1975)

American experience during the Great Depression, focusing on people and architecture through an unvarnished aesthetic.

Subway Portraits

Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Candid black-and-white images of New York subway passengers from 1938 to 1941, depicting unposed moments of solitude and anonymity.

Related Projects

The Village

Paul Strand (1890-1976)

Portrayal of rural Italian village life, revealing intimate details of community members in domestic and communal spaces, highlighting unromanticized realities of post-war Italy.

Young Farmers, 1914. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

People of the 20th Century

August Sander (1876-1964)

Typological photographic study documenting German societal archetypes through seven thematic groups, spanning decades and social strata.

Behind the Saint-Lazare station, Paris, 1932. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.

The Decisive Moment

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.

Mother Surrounded by Children, Dahlonega, Georgia, 1936

You Have Seen Their Faces

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)

Human faces and living conditions in the American South during the Great Depression, capturing scenes of labor, poverty, and familial life.

Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

Roll, Jordan, Roll

Doris Ulmann (1882-1934)

African American life and culture in rural South Carolina during an era of social and cultural transition.

Mechanic at Steam Pump in Electric Power House, ca. 1921

Men at Work

Lewis Hine (1874-1940)

Industrial labor, human dignity, and photographic realism during the Machine Age.