The Lost Work.

Text by Belinda Rathbone and Clark Worswick. Photographs by Walker Evans.

Arena Editions, Santa Fe, 2000. 224 pp., 160 four color illustrations, 9x10".

Walker Evans was perhaps the greatest documentary artist America has ever known. In a career that lasted forty-six years (1928-1974) Evans profoundly even radically-changed the way Americans looked at themselves, their social causes, and their country. Drawn from a largely unseen private collection-the largest private collection of Walker Evans photographs in the world-this lavishly produced volume presents scores of pictures that have heretofore been inaccessible to the public.

Included are the familiar images of Evans's southern work (1935-36), as well as far less familiar images of Evans's friends and fellow artists; his work in Tahiti; photographs that he made of Victorian house architecture (1930-31); and photographs done on travels to England, Cuba, Maine, Nova Scotia, Chicago, and New Orleans. Importantly, Evans prefigured the work of photographers as diverse as Dorothea Lange, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, and Garry Winogrand- as well as two generations of American documentary photographers. The "lost" photographs of Walker Evans, perhaps the most important figure in twentieth- century photography, are seen here for the first time.

Authors Belinda Rathbone and Clark Worswick have written lively texts delineating the overlooked byways of Evans's career at a moment when a rediscovery of his life's work is taking place in both the museum world and in the world of photographic collecting.

Belinda Rathbone is a photography historian who has written widely on modern photographers.

Recognized as one of the top fifteen photography books of 2000 by the Village Voice.

"The Lost Work is a wonderfully rare thing: a glimpse of the 'outtakes' of Evans' life. This melange of public and private reveals how Evans loved anonymity and found it behind the camera, spying on his own life. In looking at these, we too become spies, for this collection is, ultimately, personal effects."
-Black + White

Reproducing some of the most stunning and rarest of Evans work, almost all previously unpublished, this lavishly produced volume brings to light scores of images from an artist who has been labelled "the great artist of our time."--Vanity Fair. Some of the rarities included are from work Evans did in Cuba, Tahiti, Maine, Chicago, England, and Nova Scotia.

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