Walker Evans
American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the off-road and NASCAR driver, see Walker Evans (racing driver).
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".[1]
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Born | (1903-11-03)November 3, 1903 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | April 10, 1975(1975-04-10) (aged 71) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
Notable work | American Photographs (1938) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) Many Are Called (1966) |
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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.[2]