Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories

by Michael Lesy

Book Overview

In 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photographs and newspaper clippings to evoke a devastatingly tragic epoch, the real-world antithesis of the fanciful "Gay Nineties." It startled readers then and remains a touchstone of modern photographic interpretation. That year Lesy met and became close friends with the great photographer Walker Evans,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0922233527
• ISBN13: 9780922233526
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Blast Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 8.7"