Walker Evans: Famous Photographer

Biography:

·         November 3, 1903- He was born

·         Graduated from Phillips Academy

·         Studied French literature for a Year and spend a year in Paris

·         Returned to New York City

·         Started to enjoy photography in 1928

·         1933 he photographed in Cuba for a publisher

·         1935 took pictures of the aftermath of the Great Depression (Farm Security Administration)

·         1936 he teamed up with this guy named James  Agee whose a writer (Agee got Evans interested in becoming a writer)

·         1938 he stopped taking pics for FSA and he had an exhibition opened up for all his Pictures in New York in the Museum of Modern Art. It was their first time eer holding up just a single photographer.

·         In 1938 he started taking pictured in New York.  And mentored Helen Levitt

·         1945 became a writer at Time magazine

·         1965 became a professor of Photography at Yale  school of art

·         1975 he died in his house.

Walker Evans Style:

·         Rigorously plain

·         Art that’s not art

·         He showed regular pictures and proved them to be art

·         Sense of European Modernism

·         Modern Urban Landscape

 Walker Evans Influences

·         He didn’t want to be what his father was like a publisher, advertising executive

·         He let out all of his frustration by taking photo’s it was a way to get his mind off things