Walker Evans

James Agee and Walker Evans Fortune Magazine, in July and August of 1936, sent James Agee and Walker Evans to research a story on sharecropping. In the preface of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Agee describes it as “a curious piece of work.” They were to produce “an article on cotton tenantry in the United States, in the form of a photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers,” (IX). James Agee and Walker Evans set out to write

was always a very common practice(REF). Three photographers participated in architectural photography. These were Walker Evans, Albert Sands Southworth, and Josiah Johnson Hawes. Although there were many differences in the formal elements used between these photographers, a common theme can be

so I will be comparing Walker Evans and Robert Franks photography styles. To get full comprehension on both styles of work first we will start at the beginning. Walker Evans was born in a wealthy area of St Louis, Missouri in 1903. He graduated from an all-boys preparatory school, began college for a year before dropping out and heading to France for another year. After his return to the U.S., Evans joined the New York art crowd and began photography in 1928. Evans began working closely with

Walker Evans, a well respected photographer, has taken many photos that prick the mind of those who observe. One of his best works is one that has no name or words to it, but is still able to tell a story. This picture of some doorsteps, to what looks like a factory, accurately illustrates the economic situation during the Great Depression. The man sitting down to the left is reading a newspaper and looking down in almost complete hopelessness as he seems to be searching for possible jobs in the

nostalgia,” says Walker Evans.1 Throughout his photographic career Walker Evans was just that, interested in the history that he lived through. As an FSA photographer, Evans mission was to “introduce America to America” and showcase “the reality of its own time and place in history” says Stryker, the leader of the FSA movement.2 Evans produced images that revealed Americas’ despair in the depression, but also the hope for the future. In the photograph “Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Family”, Evans portrays

Who is Walker Evans? Walker Evans was one of many influential photographers along with being a writer. As a writer he found it better to explain his work with his photographs. Walker Evans was born on November 3, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. There really isn’t that much information on who his family was or what they did but for now we only know that he did have a father, a mother and had no siblings. However he did have 2 spouses before he died but both marriages didn’t last. Evans also was a painter

Jack Horvath Mr. Kim American Literature 23 May 2017 Walker Evans: Particularly American Photos The phrase "A picture is worth a thousand words" applies to the effectiveness of imagery in capturing the feeling of historical events. Prior to the work of Walker Evans, American lifestyle was characterized by prosperity. To illustrate, consider the fact that the nation's wealth more than doubled from 1920-1929. The stock market crash of 1929 sent Wall Street into a panic and ultimately gave rise to the

40 days after the escape, she goes back to Vosch's watchtower after she realizes that they both have a common goal: to silence Evan Walker. The book moves back to Cassie, who is talking to Evan, broken up over the fact that her brother Sammy has forgotten his ABC's and his own mother's face. This is especially bad because these traits are all that's left of humanity. Evan responds by telling her that he has also forgotten what it means to be compassionate, ending the discussion when he tells her that

Walker Evans is one of the most notable photographers of his generation in the twentieth century. A photographer whose photographic subjects not only stayed consistent throughout the years but also had the ability of showing the present as if it were the past. Evans loved taking pictures of vernacular architecture, portraiture, particularly the man on the street, signs and billboards. Those who are familiar with Walker Evans works are quick to associate him with his uncompromising documentation

Depression, Walker Evans worked primarily as a photojournalist and documentarian, using the medium of photography to capture American life in visual detail. Many of Evans’s most famous photographs appear in his book, co-written with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book was in part funded by grants issued by New Deal programs the Roosevelt administration designed to address systemic poverty. Photojournalism was integral to achieving the goals of the New Deal, which is why Evans and Agee