Walker Evans: America

by Walker Evans, Michael Brix, Birgit Mayer

Photos from an exhibition

Genres: Art and Photography, Art

123 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 1991

About the author

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. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. 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 or George Eastman House.

In 2000, Evans was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame

Reviews

[Davy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The printing quality here is nothing special, unfortunately, but this volume is worth picking up because it contains a significant number of Evans photographs you won't find elsewhere. That makes it essential.

[Kelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great insight into the photographer’s ethos plus a great mix of well-known and some more obscure photos.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Evans as historian