The Walker Evans most people know is the documentary ... understanding of the legacy of the artist.” Evans came to photography through a desire to be a writer. But, as he once said, “I wanted ...

Walker Evans is one of the most vaunted American ... its imprimatur now firmly established in the canon of American photography. The photographs that Evans is known for are the seemingly ...

A fierce, determined artist, Walker Evans was for decades on staff at ... might astonish those photography buffs who have always, understandably, imagined Evans as nothing if not an irresistible ...

First published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to coincide with one of the museum’s earliest photo exhibitions, Walker Evans’ American Photographs is a classic of its time. In the forward to the ...

Walker Evans' influence so suffused the work of younger artists that we can barely see what he produced on its own terms. We can sense the force of his example everywhere, from the photography of ...

American photographer Walker Evans is perhaps best remembered for ... he changed course and took up photography. Starting off as an advertising photographer, Evans worked for the Farm Security ...

Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975), Houses as Billboards ... in 1903 (he died in 1975), Evans helped pioneer documentary photography. “The work is straightforward, but there’s a kind of ...

Known for iconic images of the Great Depression and for finding poetry in subjects as mundane as a junkyard, 20th-century photography giant Walker Evans has inspired an extensive retrospective at ...

Seventy-five years ago, the Museum of Modern Art presented its first solo photography exhibition, a show of pictures by Walker Evans titled “American Photographs.” James Agee’s unpublished ...