https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/5144/EvansW-McAlmon72.jpg befe5d9bb971af2429fbbe3b3f6f944e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears McAlmon, Robert Photograph Title Title of photograph Torn Movie Poster 1930 Book Genre Novel Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Documentary Group Photographer Group FSA Photographer Photographer Evans, Walker Designer Designer of book cover Kachele, Tina Notes Notes associated with the item Similar versions of Walker Evans Torn Movie Poster, made on Massachusetts Cape Cod in 1930 and first published in his seminal American Photographs, are found on the covers of two books in this collection: Village (a 1990 University of New Mexico Press reprint of Robert McAlmons 1924 novel) investigates, according to its jacket blurb, “…the quiet desperation of life in a North Dakota Prairie community.”, while in Suspects (Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), author David Thomson employs poetic license to track the arc of fictional movie characters lives. That the original Evans photograph can represent these two unrelated topics with equal fidelity is a testament to its graphic power and semiotic complexity. See 'Multiple Uses' for other books with the same cover image: Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University of New Mexico Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Relation A related resource Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Title A name given to the resource Village