Walker Evans was an American photographer who has influenced numerous modern and contemporary photographers. He photographed for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and documented the effects of the Great Depression. In 1945, he was a staff writer for Time magazine and an editor for Fortune magazine until 1965.
He mainly used an 8x10-inch camera and 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 countless museums such as The Met and the Getty Museum.
Here's a link to him in
The Met's Timeline of Art History
Hey! He stole that picture from Sherrie Levine! Kidding heheh. I like the similarity in the first two portraits. Very cool.
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