The so-called “Subway Series” is made up of ... Overall, though, “Walker Evans” emphasizes that the photographer’s eye rarely wavered over five decades. “His antenna was really attuned ...

Walker Evans, frustrated by his efforts to become a serious writer, had become a "passionate photographer," he said, by 1930. He seized on the subway reportedly because of the variety of people ...

As a photographer for the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, Walker Evans ... Between 1938 and 1941, Evans took dozens of photographs of people on the New York subway with a hidden camera.

As a photographer, Evans was fascinated by everyday things ... secretly photographing fellow subway passengers, and making striking images of laborers going to or coming home from work.

Szarkowski, John, curator. "Walker Evans: Subway Photographs," The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York, October 5-December 11, 1966. -solo "Walker Evans," Robert ...

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 ... from subway riders to main-street ...

"Walker Evans," the exhibition at Stanford's Cantor Center showcasing the photographer-artist who ... unsuspecting riders of the New York subway - set a tone of mute awe at the ordinary and ...