Walker Evans: the magazine work
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- q17z0
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Steidl Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783869302591
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Campany’s book and curation of the international touring exhibition address an overlooked aspect of the work of Walker Evans, one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Despite the established field of scholarship on his photographic books, his passion for print has not been extensively studied. Evans worked in every genre and format, in black and white and in colour, but two passions were constant: literature and the printed page. Involving over five years of archival research, Campany’s book and accompanying exhibition tell the whole story of Evans’ early love of printed matter, his keen interest in the publications of others, and his work at Time Incorporated.
In-depth archival research has enabled Campany to select for publication in the book many of Evans’s photo-essays in their entirety. This is a comprehensive and heavily illustrated assembling of the unwritten history of Evans’s photo-essays, accompanied by Campany’s major 25,000-word contextual text. His research shows that in small avant-garde publications and mainstream titles, such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Architectural Forum, Life, and Fortune, Evans produced innovative and independent journalism, often setting his own assignments, editing, writing and designing his pages. This work provides insights into how Evans protected his autonomy, earned a living, and found audiences far beyond the museum and gallery. Campany’s book was Winner of the Deutscher FotoBuch Preis Silver Award.
A touring exhibition accompanies the book, commissioned and funded by the following public institutions: CCP, Melbourne (2016), Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2016)), Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen (2015), FoMu, Fotomuseum Antwerp (2014) and MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kracow (2014). Further exhibitions extending this work were curated with Jean-Paul Deridder and Sam Stourdzé at; Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia (2016), Fondation ‘A’ Stichting, Brussels (2016), Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (Musée Départemental d’Archéologie d’Arles), (2015).
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- Non-English
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