[Michael]

Princeton University Press have recently published Walker Evans: starting from scratch, by Svetlana Alpers. This appears to be the art historian's first book on photography and it is (very positively) reviewed by the author Joyce Carol Oates in the February 26th issue of the Times literary supplement.

The book is described as being 257 pages long: the review refers to "the 143 photographic plates preceding... [the] 213-page text". It costs £34.

I don't like to reproduce the review here without permission; but I'd happily let any interested FADU member have photographs of its two pages. That issue of the TLS has an Evans photograph on the cover - fella sitting on a tipped-back chair next to a doorway in bright American sunshine.