Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called.This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called isnow being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans.
Many Are Called cameto fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coatthe lens peeking through a buttonholehe captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans’s subway portraits.
This beautiful new editionpublished in the centenary year of the NYC subwayis an essential book for all admirers of Evans’s unparalleled photographs, Agee’s elegant prose, and the great City of New York.

Many Are Called

Arts & Photography

Walker Evans

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

It's a well-kept secret that the Library of Congress oversees a collection of photographs numbering in excess of three million, the bulk of which are in the public domain. Among the highlights of that collection are Evans' remarkable images of the Depression era--part of a larger photographic project that employed Dorothea Lange and others--documenting the effects of soil erosion in Mississippi, the plight of Arkansas flood victims and the day-to-day lives of Alabama sharecroppers. The mood of the period is evoked strongly by nearly 500 photographs, many reproduced here for the first time; others are memorable for their inclusion in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Walker Evans: A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection 1935-1938

Da Capo Press

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

History

James Agee

Americas

Ballantine, c.1972

An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936, examining their everyday existence in poverty

Science & Math

Ballantine Books

First and last

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

Photographs

Secker Warburg

Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill

Köln : Könemann

Let us now praise famous men (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai People's Publishing House

Sia lode ora a uomini di fama

Il Saggiatore

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