{"product_id":"walker-evans-labor-anonymous","title":"Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst Edition, 2016. 162 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook measures 9.75 x 10.25 inches. Cloth in dust jacket. Contains 50 duotone images. Edited by Thomas Zander, with texts by David Campany, Heinz Liesbrock, and Jerry L. Thompson. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalker Evans shot the photographs collected in \u003cem\u003eLabor Anonymous\u003c\/em\u003e as an assignment for Fortune magazine, which published a small selection of 20 images in its November 1946 issue, under the title \"On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit.\" Until now, however, the entire series of 50 photographs has never been reproduced. Evans' extraordinary serial studies of the facial expressions and postures of Detroit workers walking the city's streets are fascinating both as portraiture and as a surprising dimension of his photographic style. Shooting passersby against a plywood backdrop as they crossed his field of vision from distant right to close left (some noticing him, most not), with the light striking and modeling their features, Evans found that what he was creating with these images was \"the physiognomy of a nation.\" This book compiles the photographs, contact sheets, small-version printlets, Evans' annotations to newspaper clippings, drafts for an unpublished text, telegrams and every available print Evans made, along with the Fortune spread as published. \u003cem\u003eLabor Anonymous \u003c\/em\u003ecaptures a long-vanished moment in American history, and a crucial project in Evans' oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFine in Fine dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bendowa Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48026831126702,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0696\/0149\/3166\/files\/Walker-Evans-Labor-Anonymous.jpg?v=1782571140","url":"https:\/\/bendowabooks.com\/products\/walker-evans-labor-anonymous","provider":"Bendowa Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}