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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

    Subway Portraits

    • Walker Evans (1903-1975)

    Candid black-and-white images of New York subway passengers from 1938 to 1941, depicting unposed moments of solitude and anonymity.

    Subway Portraits

    • Walker Evans (1903-1975)

    Candid black-and-white images of New York subway passengers from 1938 to 1941, depicting unposed moments of solitude and anonymity.

    Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

    Books

    Many Are Called

    (Yale University Press, 2004)

    Walker Evans: Aperture Masters of Photography

    (Aperture, 2016)

    Walker Evans At Work

    (Westview Press, 1994)

    Walker Evans (Photofile)

    (Thames & Hudson, 2008)

    Walker Evans & Company

    (MOMA, 2002)

    Walker Evans

    (Actes Sud, 2014)

    Walker Evans

    (MOMA, 1979)

    Walker Evans

    (Phaidon, 2001)

    Walker Evans

    (Princeton University Press, 2004)

    Walker Evans

    (Prestel, 2017)

    Walker Evans

    (MOMA, 1971)

    More by Walker Evans

    Parker Car, Small Town Main Street, 1932
    American Photographs
    • Walker Evans (1903-1975)

    American experience during the Great Depression, focusing on people and architecture through an unvarnished aesthetic.

    Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
    • Walker Evans (1903-1975)

    Unembellished portrayal of rural poverty through meticulously composed photographs and introspective text, revealing the deep interplay between creative expression and social awareness.

    Related Projects

    Behind the Saint-Lazare station, Paris, 1932. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.
    The Decisive Moment
    • Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

    Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.

    Newtown, Conn., Oct. 17, 1959
    On Reading
    • André Kertész (1894-1985)

    A photographic meditation on the power of reading to connect individuals with words and with each other, inviting contemplation on a universal human activity.

    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    A Way of Seeing
    • Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

    Spontaneous moments of childhood play intertwined with the daily rhythms of working-class street life in 1930s and 1940s New York City.

    A small debate in the Chamber of Deputies.
    Famous Contemporaries in Unguarded Moments
    • Erich Salomon (1886-1944)

    Unposed moments of political and social elites captured during informal settings, revealing the human dimension of authority figures.

    The Melted Car, 1944.
    The Suburbs of Paris
    • Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)

    Parisian suburbs during the transformative post-war period, capturing the interplay of evolving urban landscapes and the lives of working-class communities.

    Sunday morning is the only time these cuties get a chance to get cleaned up... Image courtesy of ICP.
    Naked City
    • Weegee (1899-1968)

    Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.