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Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' New Deal work uses the large format, 8 × 10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent". Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the George Eastman Museum.
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Introduction
Born 3 November 1903; died 10 April 1975. In 1928, Evans worked as a freelance photographer in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City, New York. In 1930 Evans undertook a project to photograph popular housing and Victorian architecture in New England. In 1935, Evans travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana to photograph southern plantation architecture. From 1935 to 1937, Evans worked as a staff photographer for the Farm Security Administration. In 1935, he documented the coal mines and industrial towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia as well as the effects of flooding in Arkansas and Tennessee in 1936-1937. In 1937, Evans undertook a project with James Agee to photograph the lives of tenent farm families in Hale County, Alabama. The project was turned into a book entitled "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men". In 1943, Evans joined the staff of Time Magazine. From 1945 to 1965, Evans acted as editor and photographer for Fortune Magazine. During the 1950s Evans began to focus on American industrial landscapes.
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American
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Author, Writer, Lecturer, Painter, Photographer
Name
Walker Evans
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500012076
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Works

368 works online

Exhibitions

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Publications

  • Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, Phillipe Peltier, 2020 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 248 pages
  • MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Flexibound, 408 pages
  • MoMA Now: Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art—Ninetieth Anniversary Edition Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry, 2019 Hardcover, 424 pages
  • Lincoln Kirstein's Modern Samantha Friedman and Jodi Hauptman, 2019 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 208 pages
  • Being Modern: Building the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Edited by Quentin Bajac, 2017 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 288 pages
  • Photography at MoMA: 1920 to 1960 Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, and Sarah Hermanson Meister, 2016 Hardcover, 416 pages
  • Walker Evans: American Photographs. Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition Lincoln Kirstein and Sarah Meister, 2012 Hardcover, 208 pages
  • The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today Roxana Marcoci. Essays by Roxana Marcoci, Geoffrey Batchen, and Tobia Bezzola, 2010 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 256 pages
  • Walker Evans and Company Peter Galassi, 2000 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 272 pages
  • Walker Evans and Company Peter Galassi, 2000 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, 272 pages
  • Walker Evans: American Photographs Lincoln Kirstein, 1988 (3rd revision of 1938 edition) Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, pages
  • Walker Evans: American Photographs Lincoln Kirstein, 1988 (3rd revision of 1938 edition) Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, pages
  • Walker Evans John Szarkowski, 1971 Exhibition catalogue, Clothbound, pages
  • Walker Evans John Szarkowski, 1971 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, pages
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