"American Photographs", Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Parker Car, Small Town Main Street, 1932

Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935

Alabama Tenant Farmer Family Singing Hymns, 1936

Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer’s Wife, 1936

Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner’s House, 1935

Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1931

People in Summer, New York State Town, 1930

Two-Family Houses in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1936

Millworkers’ Houses in Willimantic, Connecticut, 1931

Books

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

(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)

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: American Photographs: Books on Books No. 2

(Errata Editions, 2011)

Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition

(MOMA, 2012)

Walker Evans At Work

(Westview Press, 1994)

Walker Evans & Company

(MOMA, 2002)

Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange & les photographes de la grande dépression

(Place Victoires, 2017)

Walker Evans (Photofile)

(Thames & Hudson, 2008)

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The Village

Paul Strand (1890-1976)

Portrayal of rural Italian village life, revealing intimate details of community members in domestic and communal spaces, highlighting unromanticized realities of post-war Italy.

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