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Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous

Join David Campany and Jerry L. Thompson in conversation on the newly released D.A.P./Koenig book Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous. Campany and Thompson will discuss this crucial project within Evans’ oeuvre, as well as its significance as a long-vanished piece of American history. A book signing will follow.

Walker Evans shot the photographs collected in Labor Anonymous as an assignment for Fortune, which published a small selection of twenty images in its November 1946 issue, under the title “On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit.” Until now, however, the stunning series of fifty photographs has never been reproduced in its entirety. 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the photographs, contact sheets, small-version printlets, Evans’ annotations to newspaper clippings, drafts for an unpublished text, telegrams and every available print Evans made, along with the Fortune spread as published. Essays by David Campany, Jerry L. Thompson, and Heinz Liesbrock are also included in the book.











When: Mon., Apr. 11, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 W. 27th St., 4th Floor
212-505-5555
Price: Free
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Join David Campany and Jerry L. Thompson in conversation on the newly released D.A.P./Koenig book Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous. Campany and Thompson will discuss this crucial project within Evans’ oeuvre, as well as its significance as a long-vanished piece of American history. A book signing will follow.

Walker Evans shot the photographs collected in Labor Anonymous as an assignment for Fortune, which published a small selection of twenty images in its November 1946 issue, under the title “On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit.” Until now, however, the stunning series of fifty photographs has never been reproduced in its entirety. 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the photographs, contact sheets, small-version printlets, Evans’ annotations to newspaper clippings, drafts for an unpublished text, telegrams and every available print Evans made, along with the Fortune spread as published. Essays by David Campany, Jerry L. Thompson, and Heinz Liesbrock are also included in the book.

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