Walker Evans developed a cool, exact photographic style around vernacular architecture, signs, interiors and American social life. His collaboration with James Agee for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and his subway portraits became defining statements of twentieth-century documentary photography.
Photography
Artist Films
Artist Talk: Jeff Wall on Walker Evans
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife
- Allie Mae Burroughs
- Roadside Stand Near Birmingham
- Penny Picture Display, Savannah
- Main Street, Saratoga Springs
- Subway Portraits
- Hale County farmhouse interiors
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men photographs
- Negro Church, South Carolina
- License Photo Studio
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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