Walker Evans

- Introduction
- Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period 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 George Eastman Museum.
- Wikidata
- Q363308
- 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.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Writer, Photographer
- Name
- Walker Evans
- Ulan
- 500012076
Exhibitions
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509: New York City, 1920s
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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520: Picturing America
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern
Mar 17–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
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Stephen Shore
Nov 19, 2017–May 28, 2018
MoMA
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Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection,
1909–1949 Dec 13, 2014–Apr 19, 2015
MoMA
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Walker Evans has
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Walker Evans Untitled 1928
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Walker Evans Couple at Coney Island, New York 1928
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Walker Evans Roadside Gas Sign 1929
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Walker Evans 42nd Street 1929
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Walker Evans Workmen Sitting on Sidewalk 1929
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Walker Evans Brooklyn Bridge, New York 1929
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Walker Evans Stamped Tin Relic 1929
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Walker Evans Moving Truck and Bureau Mirror 1929
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1929
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1928
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1928
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1928
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1928
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1929
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1928
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1928
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1928
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Walker Evans Brooklyn Bridge 1929
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Walker Evans Third Avenue "L", Light Patterns, New York 1929
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Walker Evans Third Avenue "L" at 42nd Street, New York 1929
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Walker Evans U.S. Rubber 1929
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Walker Evans Brooklyn Bridge Detail, Brooklyn, New York 1929
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Walker Evans Construction Shack, New York 1929
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Walker Evans Third Avenue "L", New York c. 1928
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Walker Evans Skyscrapers, Abstract Detail, New York 1929
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Walker Evans City Lunch Counter, New York 1929
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Walker Evans Girl in Fulton Street, New York 1929
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Walker Evans Factory Street in Amsterdam, New York 1930
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Walker Evans Detail of a Cottage at Ossining Camp Woods, New York 1930
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Walker Evans Wooden House in Ossining, New York 1930
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Walker Evans View of Ossining, New York 1930
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Walker Evans Interior Detail of Portuguese House 1930
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Walker Evans Hotel Porch, Saratoga Springs, New York 1930
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Walker Evans Torn Movie Poster 1930
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Walker Evans People in Summer, New York State Town 1930
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Walker Evans Untitled 1929-30
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Walker Evans Tenement, 260-270 Sixth Avenue, New York 1930
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Walker Evans Lehmbruck: Head of a Man c. 1929
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Walker Evans Lehmbruck: Figure of a Woman c. 1929
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Walker Evans Lehmbruck: Figure of a Woman c. 1929
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Walker Evans Lehmbruck: Torso of Woman c. 1929
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Walker Evans Untitled c. 1929
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Walker Evans Votive Candles, New York City 1929–30
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Walker Evans Truck and Sign 1928-30
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Walker Evans Tin Relic 1930
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Walker Evans Untitled (wood) 1930
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Walker Evans Walabout Market, Brooklyn 1930
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Walker Evans Gothic Gate near Poughkeepsie, New York 1931
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