Walker Evans

Born: November 3, 1903

Died: April 10, 1975

Walker Evans is  known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression.

While working for the FSA, he used a large-format 8×10 inch (200 x 250 mm) view camera.

His goal as a photographer was to “make pictures that are literate, authoritative, transcendent.” He is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Considered the progenitor of the ‘documentary tradition’ in American photography, Evans had the ability to see the present already as the past. He put that knowledge and vision into his art that has made an everlasting impression on our country today. Almost all of his work is shot in black and white. He is best known for his documentary and portrait work throughout the Great Depression. 

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