"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Subway Portrait by Walker Evans ... started taking pictures in the late 1920s, photography was rarely considered an art at all ...

See his early angular images of New York City and his street photography, along with secret-camera snaps of unassuming subway passengers. Previously unknown to me: his catalog-like pictures of various ...

Corrugated Tin Facade / Tin Building, Moundville, Alabama, Walker Evans, 1936. (Photo by Sepia Times / Universal ... cool in his pictures from Cuba; the subway portraits surreptitiously taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

his work with covert street and candid subway photography and other book projects. “It’s really a show that’s meant to take the Walker Evans that you know and expand your perception of who h ...

Lesy’s just-published book, “Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories” (Blast Books, 2022) brings together some of those SX-70 photos. Here’s what Lesy says about them: “The SX-70 ...

This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with a major show there in some three decades. By Laura van Straaten ...