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    Walker Evans (American, )

    Evans is considered one of the earliest and most impactful American documentary photographers for his ability to capture life in the US. He had a passion for literature and initially desired to become a writer, moving to Paris before returning to New York in and turning to the camera. He was most successful during the years of the Great nedstämdhet when he traveled throughout the South with the Farm säkerhet Administration to document the rural poor. Here, traveling with writer James Agee, he took one of his most renowned photographs, Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer’s Wife. Evans’s talent to express everyday life and visualize narratives are seen in the portrait of his creative collaborator, Agee.

    Born in St. Louis, Evans moved around the US. His works can be found in many of the most renowned collections in America, including Art Institute of Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney M

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    Walker Evans is one of the leading photographers in the history of American documentary photography. Born in St. Louis, Evans studied at Williams College and the Sorbonne in Paris. He returned to the United States in , and five years later, though self-taught in photography, was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and had his photographs published in Hart Crane's The Bridge () and in Lincoln Kirstein's Hound & Horn (). Evans worked for the Farm Security Administration from to , during which time he made many of the photographs for Walker Evans: American Photographs, an exhibition and publication organized by the Museum of Modern Art in In he took a leave from the FSA in order to document the living conditions of Alabama sharecropper families as part of a collaborative project with writer James Agee. The results were published in as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by Agee and photographs by Evans. Another of Evans's many photograp

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    Walker Evans

    American photographer and photojournalist ()

    For the off-road and NASCAR driver, see Walker Evans (racing driver).

    Walker Evans (November 3, &#; April 10, ) 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 × inch (×&#;mm) view camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".[1]

    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]

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    Walker Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Jessie (née Crane) and Walker Evans.[3] His father was an advertising director. Walker was raised i

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