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Walker Evans

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]

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

Walker Evans

(1903-11-03)November 3, 1903

St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

April 10, 1975(1975-04-10) (aged 71)

New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

American Photographs (1938)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
Many Are Called (1966)

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]

Andover, Massachusetts: 142 works (as of June 2021)[29]

Addison Gallery of American Art

Chicago, Illinois[30]

Art Institute of Chicago

Rochester, New York[31]

George Eastman Museum

Los Angeles, California: 1338 works (as of January 2019[32]

J. Paul Getty Museum

New York City[33]

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York City: 205 works (as of January 2019)[34]

Museum of Modern Art

New York City: 16 works (as of January 2019)[35]

Whitney Museum of American Art

Melbourne, Australia: 36 works (as of April 2019)[36]

National Gallery of Victoria

St. Louis, Missouri[37]

International Photography Hall of Fame

"Furniture Store Sign, Birmingham, Alabama"

Walker Evans exhibition in the argus fotokunst art gallery in Berlin.

Alpers, Svetlana (2020). Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch. Princeton University Press.  9780691195872.

ISBN

Crump, James (2010). . Hatje Cantz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7757-2491-3.

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade

Hambourg, Maria Morris; Jeff Rosenheim; Douglas Eklund; Mia Fineman (2000). Walker Evans. Princeton University Press / The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  0-691-11965-1.

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Leicht, Michael (2006). Wie Katie Tingle sich weigerte, ordentlich zu posieren und Walker Evans darüber nicht grollte. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld.  3-89942-436-0.

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(1999). Walker Evans. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-09077-8.

Mellow, James

Rathbone, Belinda (2002). Walker Evans: A Biography. Thomas Allen & Son Ltd.  0-618-05672-6.

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Rosenheim, Jeff; Douglas Eklund (2000). Alexis Scwarzenbach (ed.). Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology. Maria Morris Hambourg. Scalo / The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  3-908247-21-7.

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Storey, Isabelle (2007). Walker's Way: My Years With Walker Evans. PowerHouse Books.  978-1-57687-362-5.

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Worswick, Clark; Belinda Rathbone (2000). Walker Evans: The Lost Work. Arena Editions.  1-892041-29-4.

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Biography of Evans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

– available to read online or download

Getty Collections: Walker Evans: Catalogue of the Collection by Judith Keller

Salt Lake Utah

Article and photographs regarding Walker Evans' time spent in Ossining, NY.

Luminous-Lint page

Tod Papageorge on Walker Evans and Robert Frank

Walker Evan's Cats