For those photography buffs familiar with the groundbreaking pictures he made for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, the notion that a powerful, uncompromising artist like ...

Walker Evans, “Subway Portrait” (1941); Gelatin silver print, 5 × 7 5/8 in.; (© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Walker Evans, “Brooklyn Bridge” (1929) (© Walker Evans Archive, ...

Curated from the Clark and Joan Worswick collection by James Crump for the Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. Presented at Huis Marseille in cooperation with Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung ...

Walker Evans was such an influential 20th-century American photographer — and writer, editor and teacher — that when a wide range of his images is displayed, it’s as if we’ve seen them before. For one ...

In black and white, the photographs of Walker Evans capture the stark reality of New Orleans and Louisiana during the Great Depression. Evans came to New Orleans in 1935 to photograph the city and the ...

Students of history know that “the one percent” are not an invention of the recession. In the U.S., income inequality flourished at its highest level more than 80 years ago, just before the Great ...

Corrugated Tin Facade / Tin Building, Moundville, Alabama, Walker Evans, 1936. (Photo by Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In Starting From Scratch, art historian Svetlana ...

Known for iconic images of the Great Depression and for finding poetry in subjects as mundane as a junkyard, 20th-century photography giant Walker Evans has inspired an extensive retrospective at the ...

June 11-Sept. 11. High Museum of Art. 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta. 404-733-4444. www.high.org. Walker Evans' photographs are among the most iconic images ever made of the South, but his body ...

Shore’s new book, “Early Work,” hints at the towering figure he would become in photography, a master of elegantly prosaic scenes. By Arthur Lubow The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans ...