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"It's the way
to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing
something. You are not here long." -Walker Evans "Each is an individual existence, as matchless as a thumbprint or a snowflake." -from James Agee’s
Introduction |
| EVANS, WALKER. Many
Are Called. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Octavo, original wrappers.
$700. Rare first edition of Evans’ minor masterpiece, with introduction by James Agee and more than 150 reproductions of Evans's photographs of New York City subway riders. Evans began surreptitiously photographing New York subway riders in the winter of 1938, using a 35-millimeter Contax that he had hidden beneath his coat. It wasn’t until 1966 that they were collected and issued in the current volume. Yale University Press re-issued the volume in 2004, which Randy Kennedy praised in the New York Times Book Review, writing “It is hard is hard to imagine a better way to celebrate the subway’s centennial or to reconsider Evans, one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers and artists”. Only light edgewear, generally a beautiful copy. Roth 180; Hasselblad 218. |