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 ...

The Walker Evans most people know is the documentary photographer who chronicled the harsh times of the Great Depression, creating stark images of weary sharecroppers, grim living conditions, faded ...

In 1938, New York’s Museum of Modern Art hung its first ever solo show devoted to a photographer. It was... In 1938, New York’s Museum of Modern Art hung its first ever solo show devoted to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. For several years in the late 1930s, the photographer Walker ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...