The Walker Evans most people know is the documentary photographer who chronicled the harsh times of the Great Depression, creating stark images of weary sharecroppers, grim living conditions, faded ...

Walker Evans was such an influential 20th-century American photographer — and writer, editor and teacher — that when a wide range of his images is displayed, it’s as if we’ve seen them before. For one ...

For those photography buffs familiar with the groundbreaking pictures he made for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, the notion that a powerful, uncompromising artist like ...

That the photographer Walker Evans was one of the most important American artists of the 20th century is beyond dispute. His influence, starting in the 1930s, has been inestimable, not only on his ...

In 1938, New York’s Museum of Modern Art hung its first ever solo show devoted to a photographer. It was... In 1938, New York’s Museum of Modern Art hung its first ever solo show devoted to a ...

The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans and the horror intrinsic to the American landscape. By Yaniya Lee This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova ...

Walker Evans (1903-1975) was born in St. Louis. His father was an advertising copywriter and the family moved to Chicago and Toledo, Ohio, before his parents separated in 1918. Evans went with his ...

Students of history know that “the one percent” are not an invention of the recession. In the U.S., income inequality flourished at its highest level more than 80 years ago, just before the Great ...

June 11-Sept. 11. High Museum of Art. 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta. 404-733-4444. www.high.org. Walker Evans' photographs are among the most iconic images ever made of the South, but his body ...

Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife by Walker Evans, 1936, printed 1971, gelatin silver print High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from a friend of the Museum, 74.82 L, Walker Evans Archive, ...

Like the work of most great artists, the best of Walker Evans’ pictures are marvels of contradiction. Or, rather, they acquire their power through the contradictions they deftly reconcile. One ...