Message from the Interior (Signed by Walker Evans to Alan Trachtenberg)

Evans, Walker

Eakins Press, 1966

[Association Copy] Inscribed by Walker Evans to Alan Trachtenberg, "To Alan Trachtenberg, From Walker Evans, affectionately, New Haven, 11/23/71." Softcover. Bound in publisher's wraps. Limited dampstaining to end pages, but still attractive internally.  Plates and text clean. [7] pages, 12 photographs with original glassine guards; 36.5 x 35 cm. Hasselblad 220. 

List of photos: 1. Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine, 1962; 2. Scarborough, New York, 1931; 3. The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana, 1935; 4. The Farmer of Somerstown Road, Near Ossining, New York, 1931; 5. The Church Organ, Rural Alabama, 1936, 6. Mary Frank's Bed, New York City, 1956; 7. East 120th Street, New York City, 1961; 8. The Parlor Chairs, Oldwick, New Jersey, 1958; 9. Alabama Country Fireplace, 1936; 10. The Child's Room, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1951; 11. Kingston Station, Rhode Island, 1953; 12. The Ringling Bandwagon, Sarasota, Florida, 1941.  <br> Alan Trachtenberg was a well known Yale historian in American history and former Dean at Yale University. Among other works, he is best known for "Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans, a study of American Photography from 1839 to 1938," which won the Charles C. Eldredge Prize. Autographed by author.