East Lyme brings together two independent visits to the Connecticut house where Walker Evans lived from 1967 until shortly before his death in 1975. James Welling photographed it in August 2016, and Mark Ruwedel returned to the same setting in January 2018. Neither knew of the other’s visit until later. Their photographs meet in this book, turning a shared address into a point of comparison between two approaches and two moments in time.

Ruwedel’s black-and-white pictures look at the building and its surroundings through bare trees and snow. Welling’s color photographs include architectural details and interior objects, allowing different surfaces and traces of habitation to enter the sequence. These are photographs made decades after Evans’s residence, rather than pictures by Evans himself. The house, designed by Evans with his friend Robert Busser, supplies a connection to photographic history while remaining a place that can be observed in its own right.

Published by Nazraeli Press in 2024, the hardcover contains 32 pages and twelve plates reproduced in duotone and four-color printing. Its eight-by-eleven-inch format gives the relatively small pictures generous space on the page. The publisher’s preview places single photographs on right-hand pages opposite open white space, encouraging pauses between views. The ordinary first edition comprises 500 copies; a separately offered edition with original prints is a different physical package.

The book’s interest lies in the unexpected meeting of two photographic visits, rather than an attempt to reconstruct Evans’s daily life. Readers can attend to what each photographer includes, how color changes the experience of a room or object, and how winter light shapes an exterior view. Welling and Ruwedel share a subject without erasing their differences. The restrained sequence makes the house both a historical reference and a setting for a fresh act of looking.