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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a young man, Walker Evans wanted to be a writer ... Indeed, in his role as a primary parent of modern American documentary photography, this seeming objectivity—the ability to convey the ...

June 11-Sept. 11. High Museum of Art. 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta. 404-733-4444. www.high.org. Walker Evans' photographs are among the most iconic images ever made of the South, but his ...

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 James Agee’s unpublished ...