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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.
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Sep 20, 2017 · While some of Evans’s images might convey the mythic allure of a simpler, more innocent time and place where everyone in town knew everyone else, the photographer wasn’t as nostalgic for a bygone era as much as fascinated by a country searching for roots and a national identity in the flux of modernity.
Jun 21, 2016 · The great American photographer Walker Evans is best known for his stark photos that document the years of the Great Depression in the US. In the 4.5-minute video above, produced many years...
The photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) captured a place in American social, cultural, and artistic history with his unforgettable images of the Great Depression. This website was created in conjunction with the exhibition, The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans, on view at the Florence Griswold Museum from October 1, 2011 through January 29, 2012.
Evans, who once described himself as a failed writer, approached American gas pumps, movie posters, civic statues, rocking chairs, wood-burning stoves, barbershops, and the faces that went with them all as typical features in a vast sign landscape.
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Jun 10, 2016 · In what is one of his most evocative pictures, a 1931 view of the main street of Saratoga Springs, New York, on a wet winter day, the line of parked, near-identical black cars, the rain slicked...
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