Walker Evans : : No Politics /

Walker Evans : : No Politics / / Stephanie Schwartz.

"NO POLITICS whatever." Walker Evans made this emphatic declaration in 1935, the year he began work for FDR's Resettlement Administration. Evans insisted that his photographs of tenant farmers and their homes, breadlines, and the unemployed should be treated as "pure record."...

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Schwartz, Stephanie,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023]
2020
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 100 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note about the Illustrations and Captions
  • INTRODUCTION Refusals
  • PART I AMERICAN HISTORIES
  • Collaboration
  • Doing Anything for Work
  • Too Much Time
  • Inconsolable Memories
  • PART II LATE PORTRAITS
  • Taking Credit
  • History Lessons
  • Persons and Publics
  • Nothing to See Here
  • PART III YESTERDAY'S NEWS
  • A Dream Job
  • Tabloid Time
  • American Holiday
  • Domestic Screens
  • Coda: Remakes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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