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 ...

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 ...

On this day 108 years ago, Walker Evans was born. Perhaps you never heard of him, but no doubt you have seen his work. His photojournalism captured the very essence of the Great Depression. When he ...

Walker Evans, “Subway Portrait” (1941); Gelatin silver print, 5 × 7 5/8 in.; (© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Walker Evans, “Brooklyn Bridge” (1929) (© Walker Evans Archive, ...

Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife by Walker Evans, 1936, printed 1971, gelatin silver print High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from a friend of the Museum, 74.82 L, Walker Evans Archive, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ah, Americanness. Today, a word so hard to define. A word that conjures images of a nation divided, of a broad and growing gulf between opposing visions of just what America is and should be. But ...

In November 2009 Warren Buffett made a splash in business circles when he announced that he had acquired the second-largest freight railroad in America, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, for roughly $26 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...