Walker Evans's haunting images of Southern sharecroppers in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men were as revolutionary in their time as James Agee's text, and are now d

Describes the last four years of the influential photographer's life, and shows examples of his work

A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United S

The use of the visual arts to show us our own moral and economic situation has today fallen almost completely into the hands of the photographer. It is for him

This catalog features Walker Evans in light of the larger theme of vernacular style, a style of photography--and paintings are included here too--that is descri