By: Photographs by Walker Evans, Essay by Andrei Codrescu

Date: 1998

Keyword(s): Historical photos

Location: USA, North America

Resource Type: Book / Publication

Walker Evans photographed signs throughout every phase of his long and distinguished career. From the 1920s right up to the time of his death in 1975, Evans was obsessed with the signage he found in modern America―from billboards to gas station pumps to street graffiti to handmade announcements of a Saturday-night dance. This book features fifty photographs of signs from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of this master photographer's work, presented with a lively, provocative essay by Andrei Codrescu.