Informationen zum Autor James R. Mellow (1926-1997) won the National Book Award in 1983 for his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was the author of a trilogy of biographies on writers of the Lost Generation, including Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences . In his forty-year career as a writer, art critic, and biographer, Mellow wrote for the New York Times, Architectural Digest , the Washington Post, Gourmet , and Arts magazine. Klappentext A landmark biography of the great American photographer Walker Evans! written by one of America's most esteemed biographers Zusammenfassung The Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the American consciousness. James R. Mellow's landmark biography of Evans-the first to make use of all his diaries, letters, work logs, and contact sheets-shows that Evans was not the social propagandist that many presume, but rather a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. Walker Evans is not only one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever, it is also a fascinating cultural history of America in the 1930s and '40s. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Acknowledgements * Introduction by Hilton Kramer * Prologue * School Years * The Incandescent Center * Standing Aside * Words! Etc. * The Center of Things * The Indigenous Past * Voyages * Cuba Libre * Seeing Red * The Politics of the Vernacular * Jane * Love in the Thirties * A Subsidized Freedom * A Curious Piece of Work * The Cruel Radiance of What Is * Untitled * A Way of Seeing * A Penitent Spy and an Apologetic Voyeur * An Apartment of the East Side * Contemporary American Subjects * Resorters! Tourists! migres * Of Time. . . * . . .And Fortune: the Road Taken * "If Its There! Its There." * Couples * A Season of Endings * 1957-1975: A Summary * Notes * List of Illustrations * A Brief Chronoolgy * Selected Bibliography * Index ...

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James R. Mellow (1926-1997) won the National Book Award in 1983 for his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was the author of a trilogy of biographies on writers of the Lost Generation, including Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. In his forty-year career as a writer, art critic, and biographer, Mellow wrote for the New York Times, Architectural Digest, the Washington Post, Gourmet, and Arts magazine.

Klappentext

A landmark biography of the great American photographer Walker Evans, written by one of America's most esteemed biographers

Zusammenfassung
The Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the American consciousness. James R. Mellow's landmark biography of Evans-the first to make use of all his diaries, letters, work logs, and contact sheets-shows that Evans was not the social propagandist that many presume, but rather a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. Walker Evans is not only one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever, it is also a fascinating cultural history of America in the 1930s and '40s.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgements * Introduction by Hilton Kramer * Prologue * School Years * The Incandescent Center * Standing Aside * Words, Etc. * The Center of Things * The Indigenous Past * Voyages * Cuba Libre * Seeing Red * The Politics of the Vernacular * Jane * Love in the Thirties * A Subsidized Freedom * A Curious Piece of Work * The Cruel Radiance of What Is * Untitled * A Way of Seeing * A Penitent Spy and an Apologetic Voyeur * An Apartment of the East Side * Contemporary American Subjects * Resorters, Tourists, migres * Of Time. . . * . . .And Fortune: the Road Taken * "If Its There, Its There." * Couples * A Season of Endings * 1957-1975: A Summary * Notes * List of Illustrations * A Brief Chronoolgy * Selected Bibliography * Index