Like the work of most great artists, the best of Walker Evans’ pictures ... might astonish those photography buffs who have always, understandably, imagined Evans as nothing if not an ...

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

In U.S. photography, art and style, there’s obviously no going back from Evans, so where was he coming from, and where did he take us? Born in 1903 in St. Louis, Walker Evans spent his early ...

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 his images of America in the 1930s. Born on November 3 in 1903, Evans initially aspired to become a writer and studied French ...

Before he became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Walker Evans wanted ... in this case one the photographer had acquired and kept in a frame. Evans was “here” for 72 ...

(Photo by Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In Starting From Scratch, art historian Svetlana Alpers’s biography of the American photographer Walker Evans, the images come first.

In black and white, the photographs of Walker ... Depression. Evans came to New Orleans in 1935 to photograph the city and the region. A student of the documentary style of photography, Evans ...