Walker Evans

A first edition copy of Walker Evans' Message From the Interior.

• Walker Evans (American).
• Afterword by John Szarkowski.
• New York: The Eakins Press, 1966.
• 32 pages.
• Square folio.
• Includes black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Photogravure and Color Company, Moonachie, New Jersey with glassine leaves.
• With tan end leaves, grey mottled cloth-covered boards, printed title label mounted on front, titles stamped in white on spine.

These twelve photographs of domestic interiors are richly suggestive of the lives of those who live or lived in them. In the afterword, John Szarkowski describes Evans' style as seeming "as inevitable and as anonymous as that of the early daguerreotypists, yet the character of his imagery—frontal, concisely plain, remotely passionate—is unchallengeably his own. This poised containment of form matches the content of the work, for these are pictures impelled by a concern too serious, and a love too intense, to permit the overt intrusion of sentiment."