Walker Evans
Title
Walker Evans
Creator
Walker Evans American, 1903 - 1975
Walker Evans is best known for his 1930s and 1940s documentary photographs of the United States. He spent his early career experimentally photographing the streets of New York. From 1935, he worked for the Farm Security Administration and travelled through the mid-West and Southern states of America creating his most important and significant work. His collaboration with the writer James Agee for Fortune Magazine also resulted in the groundbreaking book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). In 1938, Evans was the first photographer that the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored with a solo exhibition called Walker Evans, American Photographs.
Walker Evans is best known for his 1930s and 1940s documentary photographs of the United States. He spent his early career experimentally photographing the streets of New York. From 1935, he worked for the Farm Security Administration and travelled through the mid-West and Southern states of America creating his most important and significant work. His collaboration with the writer James Agee for Fortune Magazine also resulted in the groundbreaking book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). In 1938, Evans was the first photographer that the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored with a solo exhibition called Walker Evans, American Photographs.
Format
gelatin silver prints
Type
photographs
Description
In the 1930s, Walker Evans photographed the victims of economic depression in the American South for the Resettlement Admiration, later called the Farm Security Administration. In 1936, Evans left the FSA to return to Alabama and Louisiana with Knoxville-born writer, James Agee, to document the life of sharecroppers for Fortune Magazine. This magazine assignment would eventually become Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, published in 1941.
Publisher
Library of Congress
