Mark Ruwedel & James Welling - East Lyme: Two Visits to Walker Evans’ House in Connecticut

Nazraeli Press 2024

Walker Evans lived in this house in East Lyme, Connecticut, from 1967 until shortly before his death in 1975. The house was designed by Evans and his friend Robert Busser, a Yale architecture student. Letters and postcards were often addressed to Old Lyme or Lyme because their Mail truck turned around at Stewart’s Corner, East Lyme.

Dale Callaway, current owner of the house, writes: “What changed was the post office deciding it was about time for East Lyme to take over that route. A letter would arrive here with almost any address on it because the majority of Mail carriers just knew who lived where.”

James Welling visited in August, 2016. Mark Ruwedel visited in January, 2018. They were unaware of each other’s visits until later. The black-and-white photographs are by Ruwedel. The color photographs are by Welling.

This first edition of East Lyme: Two visits to Walker Evans’ House in Connecticut is limited to 500 copies.

Hardcover, 8 x 11 inches, 32 pages, 12 duotone and four-color plates

ISBN 978-1-59005-545-8