Walker Evans. American Photographs.

First edition of Walker Evans American Photographs in the original dustjacket. This groundbreaking monograph was published for the first exhibition of Evans' photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It still remains one of the most important photographic books of the 20th century. This edition includes an essay by Lincoln Kirstein, an American writer and cultural figure active in New York City in the 1930s, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet.