Many are Called with an introduction by James Agee.

£450 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Walker 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. First 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 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. Regards 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.

• Binding: Hardcover

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