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 ...

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 ...

Walker Evans was born into an affluent family ... And in his spare time, he resurrected his childhood hobby: photography. He had no ambition to create high art; rather, he wanted to explore ...

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 inspired an extensive retrospective at ...

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.

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 This ...