Walker Evans
Walker Evans is a well known photographer whose work is most
known for documenting and showing some of the effects of the great depression. Alot of Evans work is now on display in museums. Evans began his career as a photographer
while he was on a working holiday around Europe where he took photos of things
he found appealing. When he had returned from his trip Walker began to work for
FSA (Farm Security Administration where he started to capture images of architecture
during the great drepression. Evans
described his own work as “Leaving aside the mysteries and the enequalities of
human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography
may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of
seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt”
(www.getty.edu/art.../artmakerdetails?...) Looking at some of Evans photography
the words ‘sad’ and ‘real’ come time mind as a means to describe the
images. An image of poor male workers
all skinny dirty and unkept show a realistic view of what it was like during
the great depression in the southern states for workers. Below i have linked
some of the photography Evans captured during his life as a photographer
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