Walker Evans: American Photographs

Walker Evans: American Photographs — a landmark 1938 photobook that helped define documentary photography as an art form First published by the Museum of Modern Art to accompany Evans’s groundbreaking solo exhibition Features 87 photographs of American life, architecture, and everyday scenes from 1929–1937 Includes an influential essay by Lincoln Kirstein, with later editions adding context from Sarah Hermanson Meister Widely regarded as one of the most important photography books of the 20th century