
Walker Evans
Visual Artist
1903 – 1975
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Who was Walker Evans?
Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration 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.
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- Born
- Nov 3, 1903
St. Louis - Parents
- Spouses
- Isabelle Böschenstein von Steiger
(1960 - 1972) - Jane Smith Ninas
( - 1955)
- Isabelle Böschenstein von Steiger
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Williams College
- Phillips Academy
- Died
- Apr 10, 1975
New Haven
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on July 23, 2013
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