“Walker Evans is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century”
(Metropolitan Museum of Art). His inventive work has inspired some of the greatest photographers of all time, such as Diane Arbus. For around fifty years, he catalogued the vernacular of the daily life of Americans. His early life, the way he developed his style, and his achievements and masterpieces throughout life are very interesting.
Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903. He practiced painting, collected picture postcards, and took pictures of his friends and family with a small Kodak camera as a child.
After a year of schooling at Williams College, held quit and left school to go to New York City.
There. He found work in bookstores and in New York Public …show more content…
Evans’ early photographs showcase how he was influenced by European modernism, specifically by its formality and emphasis on dynamic structures. However, he was gradually pulled away from this style and developed his own notions of realism, the spectator’s role in the photograph, and how ordinary objects relate to one another. During the years of 1935-1936
Ghani 2 during the depression, Evans was very productive and took many photographs, and he eventually accepted a job from the U.S. Department of the Interior to photograph a government-built resettlement community of unemployed West Virginian coal miners. He and the group he was in were assigned to take pictures to demonstrate how the government was helping during the
Depression. Evans took photos of roadside architecture, small-town barbers, and cemeteries that revealed to people the deep respect for the neglected traditions of the common man. These images entered the collective consciousness of the American people and are now embedded as how we view the Depression in our minds.
Walker Evans took many important photos throughout his career. Among the