Walker Evans: The Magazine Work | 2014

Published 2014 by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany.
224 pages
290 x 220mm, hardcover, with colour illustrations
Authored by David Campany
Designed by David Campany and Sabine Hahn / Steidl design
Printed by Steidl
ISBN 978 3 86930 259 1

Walker Evans was one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century, producing a body of photographs that continues to shape our understanding of the modern era. He worked in every genre and format, in black and white and in colour, but two passions were constant: literature and the printed page.

While his photographic books are among the most significant in the medium’s history, Evans’s more ephemeral pages remain largely unknown. In small avant-garde publications and mainstream titles such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Architectural Forum, Life and Fortune he produced innovative and independent journalism, often setting his own assignments, editing, writing and designing his pages. Presenting many of his photo-essays in their entirety, Walker Evans: The Magazine Work assembles the unwritten history of this work, allowing us to see how he protected his autonomy, earned a living and found audiences far beyond the museum and gallery.