Abstract

Svetlana Alpers’s latest book on Walker Evans (1903-1975), a cultural biography, is also about photography’s contribution to the invention of a culture for America that, in the first half of the XXth century, had none. It is a bold statement that Alpers substantiates through an attentive blend of literature and photographs, painting and poetry, chronicle and history, description and narration, reception theory and art making. No doubt, these have been the topics she developed in her previous ...

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