Walker Evans
Sign in to saveAmerican photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)
Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Evans
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Occupation
- journalist
- Employer
- Resettlement Administration
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- documenta x
- Field of work
- photography
- Genre
- genre art
- Movement
- social realism
- Image
- Walker Evans 1937-02.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- name in native language
- Walker Evans
- Commons category
- Walker Evans
- date of birth
- 1903-11-03
- date of death
- 1975-04-10
- Commons Creator page
- Walker Evans
- archives at
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Evans published his first photos at the age of 27. 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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