ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 2/15/2025 Palm Springs Modernism Week presents Christopher Rawlins on 'Fire Island Modernist,' new editionDATE 2/15/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Charles Gaines and Huey Copeland launching 'The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism'DATE 2/13/2025 Rizzoli Bookstore presents John Dolan and Peter Hermann on 'The Perfect Imperfect'DATE 2/12/2025 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2025 CAA National ConferenceDATE 2/11/2025 Skira presents Bonnie Clearwater, David Mirvish and Eric N. Mack launching 'Glory of the World: Color Field Painting'DATE 2/9/2025 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' opens at the Hammer!DATE 2/7/2025 CARA presents Simone Fattal launching her new monograph in conversation with Negar AzimiDATE 2/5/2025 A book like no other: 'Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery'DATE 2/2/2025 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object New York 2025DATE 2/1/2025 Celebrate Black History Month, 2025 | BOOKS IN THE MEDIAJESSE PEARSON | DATE 1/29/2016Jesse Pearson Reviews 'Walker Evans: The Magazine Work'As a young man in the 1920s, long before he considered becoming a photographer, Walker Evans (1903-1975) wanted to be a writer. Not just a writer, but an important writer. That was his dream, and the burden of it seems to have been crushing. “I wanted so much to write that I couldn’t write a word,” he would say in 1966 to the New Yorker’s Brendan Gill. But unlike most frustrated authors, who have to settle for other jobs, from garbage man to CEO, Evans was blessed with a different—but just as ethereal—natural gift: his photographic eye. Lucky man. (And, it should be noted, he did go on to occasionally write very capable texts to accompany his journalistic photo work.)![]() Walker Evans: The Magazine WorkSteidl $65.00 free shipping |