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Walker Evans and the picture postcard

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This book focuses on a collection of 9000 picture postcards amassed by the American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) that are now part of the Walker Evans Archive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Contents

Essay, Folk documents -- Postcard correspondence -- Postcard-format photographs -- Fortune and Architectural forum facsimiles. "Main Street looking north from Courthouse Square" : a portfolio of American picture postcards from the trolley-car period / Walker Evans ; When "downtown" was a beautiful mess / Walker Evans ; "Come on down" / Walker Evans -- "Lyric documentary" lecture transcript -- "28 numbered cards" -- Plates.

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    Göttingen: Steidl, 2009

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    • 9783865218292
    • 3865218296

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    Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 3 - May 25, 2009.

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