Friday 20 March 2009

Masters of Photography: Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Roadside Store Between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro, Alabama (1936)

Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work documenting the effects of the Great Depression. He 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 museums, and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Go on reading here.

For a selection of his best photographs, click here.

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