{"product_id":"walker-evans-many-are-called-1966-124898","title":"Many are Called with an introduction by James Agee.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eWalker Evans produced this remarkable series of clandestine portraits of passengers on the New York City subway between 1938 and 1941. He caught his subjects off guard by strapping a 35mm Contax camera to his chest, with the lens protruding out between two buttons of his overcoat. He operated the shutter with a cable running down the length of his sleeve. He was initially accompanied by fellow photographer Helen Levitt, who acted as both companion and distractor when the need arose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition; small 4to (215 x 174 mm); black and white photographs printed in halftone; cream endpapers; black cloth-covered boards, spine and upper side stamped in white, black \u0026amp; white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, text in grey and white, rubbing to extremities, light scratching and short tear to lower panel bottom edge, short tears to head of spine at folds, errata slip tipped in, a very good copy. [xiv], 178pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegards sur un siècle de photographie à travers Le Livre 136; The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century pp180-1; The Photobook: A History I, p253; The Open Book pp218-9; 802 photo books from the Auer Collection p456.","brand":"EVANS, Walker.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57429638709623,"sku":"124898","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124898_01.jpg?v=1788281660","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/walker-evans-many-are-called-1966-124898","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}