Walker Evans
(1903-1975)
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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American experience during the Great Depression, focusing on people and architecture through an unvarnished aesthetic.
Unembellished portrayal of rural poverty through meticulously composed photographs and introspective text, revealing the deep interplay between creative expression and social awareness.
Candid black-and-white images of New York subway passengers from 1938 to 1941, depicting unposed moments of solitude and anonymity.
Books
Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition
(MOMA, 2012)
Walker Evans: American Photographs: Books on Books No. 2
(Errata Editions, 2011)
Walker Evans
(MOMA, 1971)
Walker Evans
(Prestel, 2017)
Walker Evans
(Princeton University Press, 2000)
Walker Evans
(Princeton University Press, 2004)
Walker Evans
(Phaidon, 2001)
Walker Evans
(MOMA, 1979)
Walker Evans
(Schirmer/Mosel, 1970)
Walker Evans
(Actes Sud, 2014)
Walker Evans
(Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2003)
Walker Evans & Company
(MOMA, 2002)
Walker Evans (Photofile)
(Thames & Hudson, 2008)
Walker Evans At Work
(Westview Press, 1994)
Walker Evans: Aperture Masters of Photography
(Aperture, 2016)
Walker Evans America: Pictures from the Great Depression
(Schirmer/Mosel, 1999)
Walker Evans: Photographs For The Farm Security Administration 1935-1938
(Da Capo Press, 1974)
Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange & les photographes de la grande dépression
(Place Victoires, 2017)
Walker Evans
(Centre Pompidou, 2017)
American Photographers of the Depression: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and the FSA Photographers (Photofile)
(Thames & Hudson, 1991)
Walker Evans - American Photographs
(Schirmer/Mosel, 2016)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(Mariner Books, 2001)
James Agee and Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(Penguin Books, 2006)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(Violette Editions, 2002)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969)
Many Are Called
(Yale University Press, 2004)