Walker's Way: My Years with Walker Evans
Isabelle Storey, . . PowerHouse, $29.95 (263pp) ISBN 978-1-57687-362-5
They met in 1959. Storey, Swiss and quite continental, newly wed, on her first trip to America, was 26; Evans, the famous photographer, was 30 years older. “He seemed to be endowed with everything I liked: charm, taste, style, an unerring eye, humor, and intelligence,” Storey writes. By the time her husband returned from out of town, she “had fallen in love.” Although speckled with famous names and hints of mutual sexual dysfunction, this is a dry, quotidian recounting of Storey and Evans's doomed romance. There is much cooking and eating but little tasting, reading but little reflection, historical markers but little involvement. The memoir contains more than 50 photographs, but nothing from Evans's renowned
Reviewed on: 08/13/2007
Genre: Nonfiction