American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)
For the off-road and NASCAR driver, see Walker Evans (racing driver).
Walker Evans
Evans in 1937
Born
(1903-11-03)November 3, 1903
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died
April 10, 1975(1975-04-10) (aged 71)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Notable work
American Photographs (1938) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) Many Are Called (1966)
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' New Deal work uses the large format, 8 × 10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".[1]
Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the George Eastman Museum.[2]
^[1] Archived March 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^Walker Evans, by Jeff L. Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, Mia Fineman (Princeton University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-691-05078-3, ISBN 978-0-691-05078-2
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