GILLES MORA

Walker Evans (1903-1975) ranks with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand as one of America''s greatest photographers. When originally published in 1994, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye was the first book to survey every significant aspect of the artist''s oeuvre. This reduced-format version, identical in content to the previous volume, includes 300 beautiful duotone photographs. Evans was largely self-educated and began photographing regularly in 1927, using a small hand-held camera. He specialized in the life of the street - carefully observed views of American architecture, the roadside, and the people who lived in the nation''s villages, towns and cities. Beginning with Evans''s early abstractions, continuing through his three-year involvement with the Farm Security Administration and his breakthrough exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and concluding with the artist''s experimentation with colour late in his life, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye remains the most complete and authoritative view of this American photographic master.

La gran depresión de los años treinta en la América rural, el régimen de Batista o los viajeros de Nueva York son realidades que Walter Evans captó en imágenes concisas, sobrias, contundentes, capaces de expresar la cruda realidad de personas que, sin embargo, saben conservar su dignidad. Evans, colaborador habitual de la revista Fortune y en sus ultimos años profesor de fotografia en Yale, ha ejercido una indudable influencia en toda una generacion de fotografos, entre ellos Robert Frank, con quien colaboro durante cinco años. Esta obra es el noveno titulo de la coleccion Photopoche, editado en castellano por Lunwerg, y que ha vendido mas de tres millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo.