Walker Evans was an American photographer best known one of the most artists of the twentieth century.Born in November 3,1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. Evans dabbled with painting as a child, collected picture postcards, and made snapshots.After a year at Williams College, he quit school and moved to New York City, finding work in bookstores and at the New York Public Library. He wrote some books known as: Many are called, American photographs, Something permanent, Walker Evans,America, Walker Evans,Cuba, Walker Evans and the picture postcards and Unclassified.
He works at Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Family, New York City, Fish Market near Birmingham, Ala, White House Garage, New York,Vicksburg, Mississippi March 1936, West Virginia, Farmhouse, Westchester County, N.Y., South Street, New York City, Boarding House Porch, Birmingham, Ala., Subway Portrait, Steel Mill and Workers' Houses, Birmingham, Alabama, License Photo Studio, Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass., Easton, Pennsylvania, Dock-Worker, Havana. For Education he went Williams College, Phillips Academy.
In September 1938, the Museum of Modern Art opened AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, a retrospective of Evans' first decade of photography.Between 1938 and 1941 Evans produced a remarkable series of portraits in the New York City subway and between 1934 and 1965 Evans contributed more than 400 photographs to 45 articles published in FORTUNE MEGAZINE.
Evans died on April 10,1975 in New Haven,Connecticut.
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