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Biography of Walker EvansName: Walker EvansBirth Date: November 3, 1903 Death Date: 1975 Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: photographer Walker Evans An American photographer, Walker Evans (1903-1975) was best known for his photographs of American life between the world wars. Everyday objects and people--the urban and rural poor, abandoned buildings, storefronts, street signs, and the like--are encapsulated in his laconic images of the 1930s and 1940s.Walker Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 3, 1903. His family moved to Toledo, Ohio, shortly after his birth but eventually settled in Kenilworth, Illinois, a well-to-do suburb of Chicago, where his father worked as a successful member of an advertising firm. Walker attended several private schools, graduating in 1922 from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, with the ambition to become a writer. He attended Williams College but dropped out after his freshman year.With an allowance from his father, Evans in 1926 moved to Paris, along with other hopeful American expatriot writers bent on absorbing the artistic and intellectual climate of avant-garde postwar Europe. Yet, …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…that brought the particular subject into existence. Associated Events Great Depression, 1929-1934 Further Reading James R. Mellow pieces together a comprehensive biography using Evans's diaries, taped interviews, work logs, and letters in Walker Evans (1999). Walker Evans: American Photographs, with an introductory essay by Lincoln Kirstein and published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1938, remains a central work for the understanding of the photographer's view of his subject. Walker Evans, with an introduction by John Szarkowski and also published by the Museum of Modern Art (1971), provides an excellent contemporary view of his work. Leslie Katz's "Interview with Walker Evans" (1971), included in Vicki Goldberg, Photography in Print (1981), provides a great deal of insight into Evans as a person. Walker Evans at Work (1982) is a useful collection of letters, interviews, and photographs.Mora, Gilles, Walker Evans: the hungry eye, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993.Rathbone, Belinda, Walker Evans: a biography, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. |