Walker Evans - Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938 - 1973

A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection in the Library of Congress.

Showing 488 (!) photographs by famous American photographer and photojournalist Walker Evans (1903-1975), taken in Georgia, South Carolina, New Orleans, Mississippi, West Virginia, and other environs.
Walker Evans helped define documentary photography and is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL PRINTING FROM 1973 (not to mix with the reprint two years later, in 1975).

THIS IS THE LAST EXCLUSIVE PHOTOBOOK AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com in 2025 -
with more than 100 great lots from my personal collection and from recent acquisitions.

Walker Evans, best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration, documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' New Deal work uses the large format, 8 × 10-inch view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".
Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the George Eastman Museum.
Walker Evans worked with many authors, artists and poets of his time, including Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane and James Agee, and The Farm Security Administration, before, during and after The Great Depression. He documented life in rural and urban America during those years, with striking and unvarnished reality.
Walker Evans captured the American experience from the late 1920s to the early 1970s with graceful articulation. From 1935 to 1937, Evans documented rural America during the Great Depression while working for the Farm Security Administration. Much of Evans' work from that period focused on three sharecropping families in southern Alabama, culminating in the revolutionary 1941 photobook Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by James Agee. His enduring appreciation for inanimate, seemingly ordinary objects and the vernacular as subject matter is evident in his photographs of shop windows, rural churches, billboards and architecture.

Like always 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance, and of course, combined shipping - worldwide.

Da Capo Press, New York. 1973. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 200 x 270 mm. 264 pages. 488 photos in black and white. Photos: Walker Evans. Introduction: Jerald C. Maddox. Text in English.

Condition:
Book and dustjacket fresh with no marks, no foxing and normal trace of use only; no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Important photobook by Walker Evans from 1973 - with the original dustjacket.

5Uhr30.com says MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT THIS YEAR -
making our single-seller photobook auctions on Catawiki so successful.
Ecki Heuser & team are wishing ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOURS for 2026.