About the Artist
Walker Evans
Walker Evans (1903 – 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch (200x250 mm) camera which produces a high degree of greyscale information as compared to 35mm film, contributing to the awe-inspiring beauty that he was able to capture with his images. 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 George Eastman House.
