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 Walker Evans photographed by Janice Lewitt, 1938-40. | |
| Born |
November 3, 1903 St. Louis, Missouri, US |
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| Died |
April 10, 1975 (aged 71) New Haven, Connecticut, US |
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.
Publications, Catalogues
- American Photographs, 1938; 2nd ed., 1962; 50th anniv.ed., New York: MoMA, 1988; 75th anniv.ed., New York: MoMA, 2012. Excerpt. [1] [2]
- with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941; Mariner Books, 2001, PDF, ARG/Epub.
- Florida, Los Angeles: Getty, 2000, 80 pp. With text by Robert Plunket, PDF, ARG.
Literature
- Virginia-Lee Webb, Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, 112 pp. Catalogue.
- Caroline Blinder (ed.), New Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans: Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
