Walker Evans | American, 1903 - 1975
Walker Evans was born in St Louis in 1903. Evans established his own documentary style of photography. He refined his concept of his subject and worked to make a seemingly simple, straightforward image appear inevitable, large in its symbolism, and irreducibly right. In the 1930s, Walker made famous photographs of the depression era in the American South. Among them is a series of pictures from 1936, which he shot while living with three sharecropper families. The result of the experience was his classic book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. From 1945 until 1965, when he accepted a professorship at Yale University, Evans worked as a staff photographer for Fortune. He died in 1975.
Walker Evans was born in St Louis in 1903. Evans established his own documentary style of photography. He refined his concept of his subject and worked to make a seemingly simple, straightforward image appear inevitable, large in its symbolism, and irreducibly right. In the 1930s, Walker made famous photographs of the depression era in the American South. Among them is a series of pictures from 1936, which he shot while living with three sharecropper families. The result of the experience was his classic book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. From 1945 until 1965, when he accepted a professorship at Yale University, Evans worked as a staff photographer for Fortune. He died in 1975.