An Unmade Book: Walker Evans’s 1970s Letter Polaroids
Blinder, Caroline.
2023.
An Unmade Book: Walker Evans’s 1970s Letter Polaroids.
In: Paul Ernest Michael Edwards, ed.
The Photobook World: Artists’ Books and Forgotten Social Objects.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 173-183.
ISBN 9781526167576
[Book Section]
The American Photographer Walker Evans, although best known for his images of 1930s and 40s America, was a prolific taker of Polaroids. In the early 1970s, he embarked on a project to put together a book of letters, each taken from locations of vernacular U.S. culture. Although unfinished, the project speaks to Evans' interest in the potential of signage, road markings, and advertising - a new language of things used, commodified, and yet to Evans - intrinsically beautiful.
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