Walker Evans: Bibliography & Resources

American Photographs

Walker Evans, with essay by Lincoln Kirstein

The catalogue of Evans's landmark MoMA exhibition, a sequenced portfolio of American subjects that became one of the most influential photography books ever published.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee and Walker Evans

The collaboration documenting three Alabama tenant-farmer families, pairing Agee's prose with Evans's portraits; little noticed at first, it became a classic after its 1960 reissue.

Many Are Called

Walker Evans, with introduction by James Agee

Evans's subway portraits, made secretly with a hidden camera between 1938 and 1941 and published nearly three decades later.

Walker Evans: A Biography

Belinda Rathbone

The first full biography of Evans, drawing on letters and more than 100 interviews with friends, colleagues, and both of his former wives.

ISBN: 978-0395590720

Walker Evans

James R. Mellow

A detailed biography completed posthumously, written with access to the Walker Evans archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Walker Evans

Maria Morris Hambourg, Jeff L. Rosenheim, et al.

The catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's major retrospective, featuring more than 175 photographs and authoritative scholarship.