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 ...

American photographer Walker Evans is perhaps best remembered for his images of America in the 1930s. Born on November 3 in 1903, Evans initially aspired to become a writer and studied French ...

In black and white, the photographs of Walker Evans capture the stark reality of New Orleans and Louisiana during the Great Depression. Evans came to New Orleans in 1935 to photograph the city and the ...

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 ...

Curated from the Clark and Joan Worswick collection by James Crump for the Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. Presented at Huis Marseille in cooperation with Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung ...

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 ...

This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with a major show there in some three decades. By Laura van Straaten Inspired ...

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 ...

Corrugated Tin Facade / Tin Building, Moundville, Alabama, Walker Evans, 1936. (Photo by Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In Starting From Scratch, art historian Svetlana ...

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 ...

Known for iconic images of the Great Depression and for finding poetry in subjects as mundane as a junkyard, 20th-century photography giant Walker Evans has inspired an extensive retrospective at the ...

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 ...