In the U.S., income inequality flourished at its highest level more than 80 years ago, just before the Great Depression, when Walker ... in 1975), Evans helped pioneer documentary photography.

That the photographer Walker Evans was one of the most important ... cultural language — from rough-hewn shacks and architecture of tarnished splendor, to hand-painted signs — required a ...

Walker Evans was never one to bow to authority. A photographer celebrated for ... Harper’s Bazaar and Architectural Digest, along with a groundbreaking solo show at the Museum of Modern Art ...

Walker Evans’ black-and-white photographs ... to note that Evans’ turning point, as a photographer, came in 1931, when he accompanied an architectural historian around the Boston area, taking ...

Today, architecture photography is most often seen in the ... On the other side of the country, in the deep south, Walker Evans photographed the architectural artifacts of rural, usually poor ...

Books in Review Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch By Svetlana ... he would encounter the elegiac images of the French architectural photographer Eugène Atget, to whom his work is most often ...

What would we see without Walker Evans? It was he who showed us gas stations as architecture ... Museum of Art’s current retrospective of the photographer’s career (at Houston’s Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...