Walker Evans
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Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walker Evans canonical | 19 |
| Walker Evans estate (for many images) | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary photographer
ⓘ
human ⓘ photographer ⓘ photojournalist ⓘ street photographer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Guggenheim Fellowship ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1903-11-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-04-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Phillips Academy Andover
ⓘ
Williams College ⓘ |
| employer |
Farm Security Administration
ⓘ
Fortune magazine ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Evans ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
photo-essay
ⓘ
social documentary ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural photography
ⓘ
documentary photography ⓘ portrait photography ⓘ street photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Walker ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
J. Paul Getty Museum
ⓘ
Library of Congress ⓘ Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art ⓘ
surface form:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
|
| influenced |
Diane Arbus
ⓘ
Lee Friedlander ⓘ Robert Frank ⓘ Stephen Shore ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Eugène Atget
ⓘ
European modernist photography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Modernism
ⓘ
surface form:
American modernism
documentary photography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
FSA documentation of rural poverty
ⓘ
photographs of the Great Depression ⓘ stark images of everyday American life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Photographs
ⓘ
Farm Security Administration photographs ⓘ
surface form:
FSA sharecropper portraits
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) ⓘ
surface form:
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Subway Portraits ⓘ photographs for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with James Agee ⓘ |
| occupation |
photographer
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New Haven, Connecticut
ⓘ
surface form:
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
|
| positionHeld | professor of photography at Yale University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Ninas Evans ⓘ |
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Walker Evans estate (for many images)