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Walker's Way; My Years with Walker Evans

Walker's Way; My Years with Walker Evans Hardcover - 2007

by Storey, Isabelle

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Brooklyn, NY: Powerhouse. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. 1st. Hardcover. 9781576873625 . Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. Signature of author on title page. Personal history and intimate memoir by the wife of the great American artist. 50 duotone photographs and over a dozen by Walker Evans. Author has a home on the coast of Maine. ; Color & B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 263 pages; Signed by Author .
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  • Title Walker's Way; My Years with Walker Evans
  • Author Storey, Isabelle
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 220
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Powerhouse, Brooklyn, NY
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # az3897
  • ISBN 9781576873625 / 1576873625
  • Weight 1.97 lbs (0.89 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.82 x 1.1 in (24.08 x 17.32 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Photographers - United States, Evans, Walker
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Isabelle Storey was born in 1933 in Bern, Switzerland, and studied textile design at the Zurich School of Design and Applied Art, receiving her diploma in 1955. In 1958, she went to New York with her first husband, Alec von Steiger. Two years later she married Walker Evans; their marriage ended in divorce. In 1973, she married her current husband, James M. Storey, a lawyer. They divide their time between Boston and coastal Maine. As curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, she mounted the exhibition The Presence of Walker Evans, which gathered photographs by Diane Arbus, William Christenberry, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Alston Purvis, John Szarkowski, and Jerry Thompson. She was the photographic editor of A Book for Boston (David R. Godine, 1980). From 1980 to 1990 she served on the Board of The MacDowell Colony.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/13/2007, Page 61

About the author

Isabelle Storey was born in 1933 in Bern, Switzerland, and studied textile design at the Zurich School of Design and Applied Art, receiving her diploma in 1955. In 1958, she went to New York with her first husband, Alec von Steiger. Two years later she married Walker Evans; their marriage ended in divorce. In 1973, she married her current husband, James M. Storey, a lawyer. They divide their time between Boston and coastal Maine. As curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, she mounted the exhibition The Presence of Walker Evans, which gathered photographs by Diane Arbus, William Christenberry, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Alston Purvis, John Szarkowski, and Jerry Thompson. She was the photographic editor of A Book for Boston (David R. Godine, 1980). From 1980 to 1990 she served on the Board of The MacDowell Colony.